• Art and Culture

  The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.

  4.5 · 8 votes · 78 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.

  3.0 · 52 votes · 63 reads

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• Society

  The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

  3.9 · 39 votes · 40 reads

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• Society

  The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

  4.1 · 27 votes · 118 reads

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• Virtues

  The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

  3.3 · 8 votes · 66 reads

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• Various

  The world is sad enough without your woe.

  4.4 · 27 votes · 85 reads

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• Government and Politics

  There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

  5.0 · 23 votes · 0 reads

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• Various

  There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

  4.6 · 58 votes · 70 reads

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• Feelings

  There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

  4.1 · 28 votes · 60 reads

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• Various

  There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...

  3.3 · 24 votes · 25 reads

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• Virtues

  There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he

  3.5 · 17 votes · 199 reads

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• Feelings

  There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber

  4.6 · 40 votes · 150 reads

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• Feelings

  There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

  4.1 · 40 votes · 88 reads

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• Virtues

  There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame, manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

  3.6 · 45 votes · 198 reads

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• Government and Politics

  This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

  4.5 · 15 votes · 2 reads

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• Virtues

  This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

  4.5 · 51 votes · 32 reads

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• Time

  Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

  3.8 · 31 votes · 124 reads

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• Time

  To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

  4.2 · 7 votes · 145 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

  3.9 · 36 votes · 169 reads

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• Nature

  To live is to function. That is all there is in living.

  4.7 · 33 votes · 29 reads

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• Virtues

  To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

  5.0 · 61 votes · 121 reads

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• Nature

  To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

  4.8 · 25 votes · 176 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  3.2 · 38 votes · 115 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

  3.7 · 43 votes · 22 reads

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• Virtues

  Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fai

  4.9 · 15 votes · 23 reads

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• Various

  We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

  4.5 · 63 votes · 11 reads

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• Various

  We fail to see that we can control our own destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

  4.3 · 35 votes · 178 reads

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• Various

  We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the generous harvest.

  4.9 · 21 votes · 169 reads

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• Defects

  What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.

  3.3 · 43 votes · 21 reads

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• Science and Technology

  What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.

  4.7 · 46 votes · 168 reads

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• Various

  What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

  4.7 · 51 votes · 6 reads

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• Society

  When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say ''amen'' to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is succes

  4.9 · 22 votes · 25 reads

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• Feelings

  Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

  3.7 · 53 votes · 132 reads

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• Virtues

  Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

  4.0 · 20 votes · 71 reads

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• Feelings

  You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

  3.3 · 8 votes · 117 reads

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• Government and Politics

  You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time

  3.1 · 54 votes · 0 reads

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• Feelings

  You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

  3.9 · 61 votes · 166 reads

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• Feelings

  You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

  3.6 · 13 votes · 195 reads

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• Feelings

  You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

  3.8 · 62 votes · 113 reads

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• Society

  Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

  4.1 · 46 votes · 68 reads

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