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| For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears. |
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| Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war! |
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| Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. |
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| Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it. |
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| Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave. |
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| Hope is the best part of our riches. |
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| In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it. |
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| In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. |
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| It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon. |
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| It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore. |
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| It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons |
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| It is the nature of thought to find its way into action. |
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| It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. |
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| Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand. |
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| Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. |
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| Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity. |
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