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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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All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed…
— Auguste Comte
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There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a…
— Samuel Johnson
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Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
— William Cowper
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He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read…
— James Boswell
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Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
— F. Sionil Jose
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Hey your so smart well once you tell the definiton of braggadocio and...Acclaim Accolade Adamant Advocate Affable Alienate Altruistic Ambiguous Amity Anarchy…
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One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is…
— Bernard Cornwell
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