When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

Samuel Johnson

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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Exam Fake Invitation Truth
Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Language Mindset Talk Thinking Yourself
My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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Friendship Mindset Myself
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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Courage Greatness Himself Man Preserve Security Virtue
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Curiosity Generosity Greatness Mindset
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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Advantage Better Country Enjoyment Himself Improvement Learning Travel Visit Worst
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Argument Reason Remove
The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Fashion Opinion Reason
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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Conscience Deep Fear God Man Rise Shame Wisdom
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Courage Hope Inspirational One Liner
Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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Art Himself Person Photograph Work
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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Forgive Man Necessary Pain True Value Wisdom
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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Crime Evil Himself Ignorance Learning Proper
Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Happiness Nature
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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End God Greatness Guide Motivational Original Spring
Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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Heart Talk Trust Voice Yourself
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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Civilization Poor Test True
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Oneself People Talk Well
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Fools Himself Influence Power Worry
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Evidence One Liner Power Truth
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Animal Home Mathematics
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Coward Patriot Refuge
The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Evil Man Misery Repeat
A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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Growth Man Mindset Place
When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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Adversity Escape Remember Suffering
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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Expression Greatness Himself Hope Man Meaning World
No man was ever great by imitation.
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Greatness Imitation Man One Liner

When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

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