Is this true or only ...

Is this true or only clever?
Is this true or only clever?
 Augustine Birrell

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

Quotes from the same author

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother.
 Augustine Birrell
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.
 Augustine Birrell
Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme glory, to do either is enduring fame.
 Augustine Birrell
It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.
 Augustine Birrell
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
 Augustine Birrell