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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

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Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
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Enemy Fear Leadership Man View
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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Light Move Sea Wind
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Choice Necessary War
The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Beginning Hope One Liner Sun Time
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
Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Greatness One Liner Ourselves Terrorism
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Bold Choice Difficult Hard Time Safety
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Blame Easy Mistake Ourselves Past
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Death End Hide Truth
Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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Inspirational Reward Success Work
A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Gift Mindset Woman
No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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Excellence Family Himself
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Blame Easy Mistake Ourselves Past
Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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Event Excitement Greatness
Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Betray End Fake Trust
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

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

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