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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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Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about…
— Saint Augustine
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The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to…
— Lawrence Clark Powell
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There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is…
— Richard Corliss
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Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed;…
— Samuel Johnson
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Impossible, I realize, to enter another’s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even…
— Paul Auster
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Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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