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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by…
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he…
No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him,…
A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps…
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted…
We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is…
The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the…
Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a…
By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of…

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In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that… — Charles Darwin
Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance? — William Shakespeare
I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to… — Anton Chekhov
Improv. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running. — Robin Williams
If you have to be right, you put yourself in a hedged lane, but once you experience the power of not having… — John Naisbitt
For a mile up and down the open fields before us the splendid lines of the veterans of the Army of Northern… — Unknown Author
Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes… — Clara Barton
Life is like watching Fast and the Furious 6. Its not easy, most of the time its just dumb and pointless, everything… — Jon Lajoie
In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of… — Thomas Edward Brown
Everyone is entitled to a home where the sun, the stars, open fields, giant trees, and smiling flowers are free to teach… — Jens Jensen

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