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Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
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Attack Conquer Control Failure Man Position Worst
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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Ambition Evil Love Operation Personal Power Reason
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Better Expensive Hope Item Preparation Sense
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it.
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Brave Clear Dangerous Glory Meet Sight Vision
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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Courage Deep Freedom Happiness
I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
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Goodness Hands Mindset Passion Thinking
You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
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Feeling Life Lose Style Taste Yourself
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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Blame Greatness Myself Ready Rule Submit
They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
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Calm Community Greatness Hands Man Mindset Sensitive
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
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
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Chief Control Courage Element Respect
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

Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

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Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

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