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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

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Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to beli...more

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficult...more

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Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?

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The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

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I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has ...more

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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

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The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also...Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but i...more

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A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.

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Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to belie...more