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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

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The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
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Discover God Independent Myself Pieces Power Reality Success Thinking Wait
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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Action Desire Eyes Glory History
He will have true glory who despises it.
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Glory Hate Himself Willing
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Fortune Herself Money Trust Wealth
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Death End Hide Truth
Adversity makes men remember God.
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Adversity God Hard Time Man One Liner Remember
A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Gift Mindset Woman
Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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Hurt Loss Money Pain Wealth
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Ourselves Place Upset War
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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Beginning Greatness Growth Humble Transformation
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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Difficult Intelligence Nature Ourselves Way
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Evil Luxury Nation Ruin
Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Deep Fire Flame One Liner
Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
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Better God Hands Hope Peace Power Safety Victory
He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
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Adversity Fortune Himself Man True
Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Feeling People Uncertain

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

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