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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.

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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.
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Desire Habit People Subject Thinking Trust
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
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Community Each Other Friendship Honesty Name Party Solid Worth
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Desire Issues Success Thinking
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
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Beautiful Cultivate Loss Lover Man Simplicity
Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Action Carry Failure Fear Safety
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Better Expensive Hope Item Preparation Sense
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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Enemy Himself Life Reason Secure
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
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Affair Brilliant Charge Expectation Man Misfortune
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Example History Teaching
When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
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Blame Himself Liberty Power Prevent Right

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