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Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.

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Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Desire Issues Success Thinking
knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
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Brave Enemy Freedom Happiness Heart Secret
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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Equality Power Question Right Strong Suffering Weakness World
Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature
Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
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Action Courage Greatness Man Remember Win
You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
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Feeling Life Lose Style Taste Yourself
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Better Expensive Hope Item Preparation Sense
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
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Attack Man Prevent Rest Superior
It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
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Attack Conquer Control Failure Man Position Worst
Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
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Adversity Avoid Chance End Greatness Security Strict
For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
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Action Learning Safety Training True
They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
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Calm Community Greatness Hands Man Mindset Sensitive
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
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Believe God Law Man Nature Necessary Rule

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