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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Samuel Johnson

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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Information Man Reminder
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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Courage Greatness Himself Man Preserve Security Virtue
How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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Cure Endurance Heart Human King Law
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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Advantage Better Country Enjoyment Himself Improvement Learning Travel Visit Worst
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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Best Deserve Ignorance Insult Motivational Punishment
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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Equality Monument Past Pride Wisdom
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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Forgive Man Necessary Pain True Value Wisdom
Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
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Accident Hands Herself Man Mistake Quiet Reach Society Stand
No man was ever great by imitation.
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Greatness Imitation Man One Liner
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Courage Hope Inspirational One Liner
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Books Choice Friendship
Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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Consistence Power Steal Theft
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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Expression Greatness Himself Hope Man Meaning World
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Law Nature Power Wisdom Woman
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Determination Diligence Greatness Impossible Performance Perservance Skills Strength Work
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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Man Praise Rich Virtue Wealth Wisdom World

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