Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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