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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare

To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.

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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

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The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.

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We should expect the best and the worst from mankind, as from the weather.

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The lazy are always wanting to do something.

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All men are born truthful, and die liars.

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When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.

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If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.

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Vice stirs up war; virtue fights.

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Prosperity makes few friends.

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There are men who are happy without knowing it.

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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.

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There are men who are happy without knowing it.

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Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.

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When an idea is too weak to support a simple statement, it is a sign that it should be rejected.

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Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.

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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

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There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.

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Patience is the art of hoping.

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If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I reply: Because I have been wrong once, or oftener, I do not aspire to be always wrong.

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We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions.

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Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

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No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

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The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

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Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.

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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

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There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.

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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

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Nothing but courage can guide life.

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He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

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We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions.

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Action makes more fortunes than caution.

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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

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The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities, and make the most of one's resources.

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Patience is the art of hoping.

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Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

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Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

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Great thoughts come from the heart.

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