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Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

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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
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
Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
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Design Hope Man Misery Success
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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Angry Break Reason See War
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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Experience Reason Success Time
When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
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Angry Hurt Injury Justice
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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Chief Control Courage Element Respect
The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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Discipline Lying Obedience Strength Strict
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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Ambition Evil Love Operation Personal Power Reason
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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Born Courage Fate Man Patience Suffering
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
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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Effort Escape Grace Man Poverty

Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

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Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

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