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To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but…

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True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love.
To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live…
Make all your friends feel there is something in them.
It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so…
When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a…
When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to…
The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is…
In everything, depend upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things. Do not depend even upon the Infinite, but learn to…
Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think…
When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no…
What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while…
The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.

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Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. — Unknown Author
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Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, "He has done this, he has done that." Of the first-rate leaders, they do… — Laozi
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid… — Jean de la Bruyere
A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse. — Jeff Cooper
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There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work. — Gerald Finzi
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There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate. — Gustav Holst

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