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All Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
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Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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