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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 man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
— Joseph Joubert
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Money is truthful. If a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a…
— Heinrich Heine
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
— Ben Jonson
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The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
— Chinua Achebe
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When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody…
— Isaiah Berlin
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If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
— Gautama Buddha
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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
— Plato
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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is…
— Gautama Buddha
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Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
— Publilius Syrus
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A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
— Heinrich Heine
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