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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 transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant…
— Samuel Johnson
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A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.
— Thomas Adams
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He strains his conversation through a cigar.
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more…
— C.S. Lewis
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All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet,…
— Thomas a Kempis
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The shepherds - simple souls - came to adore the Infant Savior. Mary rejoiced at seeing their homage and willing offerings they…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD’s Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing…
— Brother Lawrence
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The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.
— Annie Besant
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His laughter, which was never far below the surface of his conversation, now sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight.
— Joseph Lelyveld
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He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
— Nikhil Saluja
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