"A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered."

Burke, Edmund on nations   

"The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny."

Burke, Edmund on mobs   

"Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing."

Shakespeare, William on life
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"Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles."

Scargill, W. P. on talent   

"We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience."

Lincoln, Abraham on experience
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"Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."

Lincoln, Abraham on freedom
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"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty."

Lincoln, Abraham on freedom
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"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

Epictetus on power
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"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

Epictetus on attitude
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"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."

Churchill, Winston on vision
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"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

Gogh, Vincent Van on courage
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"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness..."

Bach, Richard on friends and friendship
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"The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there."

James, William on cheerfulness   

"Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all."

Whittier, John Greenleaf on farming and farmers
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"O Time and change! -- with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on!"

Whittier, John Greenleaf on age and aging   

"One brave deed makes no hero."

Whittier, John Greenleaf on heroes and heroism
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"On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!"

Whittier, John Greenleaf on media   

"In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice."

Churchill, Winston on advice
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"They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent."

Churchill, Winston on decisions
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"The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult."

Churchill, Winston on defeat
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"The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go."

Churchill, Winston on dogs
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"No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again."

Churchill, Winston on expression
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Churchill, Winston on fanatics and fanaticism
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"It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter"

Churchill, Winston on fear
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"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

Dowd, Maureen on acceptance
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"Teamwork: Never Doubt that a small group of thoughtful & committed people can change the world. It's the only thing that ever has over time."

Flanagan, Jerry on work
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"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."

Ruskin, John on fishing
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"Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not."

Ruskin, John on individuality
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"The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned."

Book, William Frederick on work
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"The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process."

Mccarthy, Mary on work   

"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on advice
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"Age, like distance lends a double charm."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on age and aging
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"A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on age and aging
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"A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on disasters   

"What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on doctors
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"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on doubt
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"What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on dullness   

"Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on elegance
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"Apology is only egotism wrong side out."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on excuses
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"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on experts
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