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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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A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
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The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs,…
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Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an…
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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by…
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