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Edwin Whipple
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
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John Greenleaf Whittier
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, It might have been!
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Andre Gide
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
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Larry Leissner
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
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Alexander Humboldt
I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.
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Robert Burns, Poem "To a Louse" - verse 8
O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. (O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.)
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John Alan Appleman
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this: dream a great dream.
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Confucius
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.
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Thomas Nashe
A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.
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Sir Winston Churchill
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties and those who demand nothing special of themselves, bu
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Henry Commager
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent.
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