"Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."
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Coningsby
by
Benjamin Disraeli
"A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
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Under Western Eyes
by
Joseph Conrad
"And, above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning."
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The Small House at Allington
by
Anthony Trollope
"What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence," returned my companion, bitterly. "The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done."
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A Study in Scarlet
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"That's the way we all begin," said Tom Platt. "The boys they make believe all the time till they've cheated 'emselves into bein' men, an' so till they die - pretendin' an' pretendin' "
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Captains Courageous
by
Rudyard Kipling
"If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."
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Jane Eyre
by
Charlotte Bronte
"I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane."
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Dracula
by
Bram Stoker