Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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What is there that money will not do?
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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