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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his…
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and…
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken…
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that…
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No longer possessed by possessions, we may become open enough to become possessed by God.
— David Adam
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It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.
— Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
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But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
— Ted Kotcheff
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The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course,…
— Fanny Kemble
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A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes…
— Fanny Kemble
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An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand…
— W.N.P. Barbellion
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