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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

Woodrow Wilson

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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Counseling Heat Judgment Light
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Accomplishment Defeat Order System
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Democracy Form Government Principle
The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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Bad Live Open Politics
No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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Himself Hood Man Rise Service Spiritual
Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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Help Level Prosperity Suffering
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Beat Death Fight Live
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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Day Lose Myself Reason Win
The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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Love Object Service Win
There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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Better Counseling Difficult Life Man Possible Stand
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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Darkness Light Ourselves Path Shadow True
We must believe the things We teach our children
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Believe Children Ourselves Teaching
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Character Daily Friendship Greatness
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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Book Man Myself Possible Reading Talk Writing
“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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Bright Genius Myself Original Perseverance
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Emotion Flag History
The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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Affair Complex Literacy Man Ordinary
I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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Believe Exercise Greatness Myself Peace Profession Stand
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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Brave Challenge Man Obstacle Scare
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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Freedom Man Sacred War
Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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Man Pay Penalty Refuse Virtue
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Choice Live People Right
I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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Failure Feeling Goodness Head
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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Myself Preparation Ready Time
Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Growth Man Responsibility
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Move Progress Stand

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