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- The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic… — Louis Kronenberger
- Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates… — William Croswell Doane
- I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of… — Robert Burns
- Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its… — Augustus Hare
- To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war. — George Steiner
- Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted… — William James
- There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of… — Noah Webster
- Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth;… — Margaret Thatcher
- None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men,… — Charlotte Mason
- Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive… — Ken Tucker
- I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in… — Jude Morgan