People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.

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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.

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Oliver Goldsmith

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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.

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You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. You become what you think about all day long. You become what you think about all day long. Distance yourself from the people that you don't want to become. You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. Stop searching for the right person. Focus on becoming one. Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists. A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others. You have to let go of the past to make room for the future. When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.