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Fable and fairytale

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.

Jean de La Fontaine

1668

★ 1.1

Play · Drama (play) · Satire

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

1898

★ 3.5

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

William Ellery Channing

1838

★ 3.5

Play · Comedy (play)

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven.

William Shakespeare

All's Well that Ends Well · 1616

★ 3.6

Poem

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

Invictus · 1888

★ 3.6

Philosophical literature

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

Adam Smith

The Theory of Moral Sentiments · 1759

★ 3.8

Novel

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Margaret Atwood

Surfacing · 1972

★ 5.5

Essay

Chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 7.0

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