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I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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Excellence Maturity Time
The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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Best History Mindset Sick Study
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Easy Known Sick
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
There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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Attack Protection Spirit
War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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Hope Necessary War Weapon
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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Betray Care End Fake Trust
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Adversity Comfortable Human Survive
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Cruelty Place Reason
Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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Complication Man Nature Reason
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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Dignity Freedom Man Mindset
Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Betray End Fake Trust
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
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Control Greatness Himself Intellectual Judgement Luck Moments
A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Gift Mindset Woman
Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Guilty Men Mindset
The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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Blame Body Intention Mindset Sin

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