Every human life involves a... by Harry Emerson Fosdick, an American Clergyman

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“Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.”

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Name: Harry Emerson Fosdick

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: May 24, 1878

Date of Death: Oct 5, 1969

Profession: Clergyman

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Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

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The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

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A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

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Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

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