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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
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The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to…
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to…
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Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either…
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I am attached to the west coast of Scotland - it's gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with…
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
— Francis Bacon
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