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He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.

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I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
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Essay Moments Myself Possession Time Win Writing
Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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Brave Dangerous Happiness Pain Spirit
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
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Action Assasination Best Brave
We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
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Himself Man Remember School Training
For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
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Admire Court Himself Man Nature Remark
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
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Brave Enemy Freedom Happiness Heart Secret
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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Fact Finding Hear People Story Trouble Truth
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
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Discipline Lying Obedience Strength Strict
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Existence History Human Nature
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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Born Courage Fate Man Patience Suffering

He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.

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