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Adversity reminds men of religion.
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Adversity Man One Liner Religion
Prosperity engenders sloth.
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One Liner Prosperity
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Blame Clever Man People Smart
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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Action Desire Eyes Glory History
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Ourselves Place Upset War
Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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Better Crime Resistance
The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Beginning Hope One Liner Sun Time
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Choice Necessary War
There are laws for peace as well as war.
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Law Peace War
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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Betray Care End Fake Trust
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Adversity Comfortable Human Survive
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
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Control Greatness Himself Intellectual Judgement Luck Moments
No law is quite appropriate for all.
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Law One Liner Quite Right
The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
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Discover God Independent Myself Pieces Power Reality Success Thinking Wait
Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Animal Deep Dignity Kind Man
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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Scare Serious Trouble

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