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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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”Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is…
— George C. Marshall
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The Marines fought almost solely on esprit de corps, I was certain. It was inconceivable to most Marines that they should let…
— Robert Sherrod
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Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for…
— Unknown Author
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty…
— Wendell Phillips
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Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in…
— William Hazlitt
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You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's…
— Alex Haley
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A coach has to worry not so much about creating motivation, esprit de corps, as about destroying it. The true competitor has…
— Dick Motta
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My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense…
— David Duchovny
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A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit…
— H.G. Wells
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