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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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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
— Lucius Accius
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With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
— Pliny the Elder
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Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
— Publius Attius Varus
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The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may…
— Eliza Haywood
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It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is…
— Herman Melville
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
— William Faulkner
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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him;…
— Samuel Johnson
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
— William Faulkner
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What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from…
— Deanna Raybourn
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There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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