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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example…
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It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to…
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The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that…
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The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and…
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For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success…
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It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have…
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Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge…
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Those who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
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The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages;…
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The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war…
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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great…
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If a man considers that he is born, he cannot avoid the fear of death. Let him find out if he has…
— Ramana Maharshi
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No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Karate cannot be adequately learned in a short space of time. Like a torpid bull, regardless of how slowly it moves, it…
— Anko Itosu
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A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of…
— Theodor Adorno
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