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"To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. "

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"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. "

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"It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional Spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another. "

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"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places."

Hemingway, Ernest on adversity
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"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary."

Hemingway, Ernest on age and aging
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"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

Hemingway, Ernest on defeat
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"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

Hemingway, Ernest on life
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"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

Hemingway, Ernest on listening
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"I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently."

Hemingway, Ernest on creation    Share

"The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life --and one is as good as the other."

Hemingway, Ernest on books - reading    Share

"I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

Hemingway, Ernest on writers and writing
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"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it."

Hemingway, Ernest on writers and writing
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"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. "

Hemingway, Ernest on uncategorised
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"What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully."

Cherbuliez, Victor on luck
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"All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it."

Collier, Robert on luck
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"Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing."

Confucius on worry
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"Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

Confucius on work
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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

Confucius on beauty
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"In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of."

Confucius on poverty and the poor
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"Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?"

Confucius on love
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"I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home."

Hazlitt, William on travel
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"Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up."

Hemingway, Ernest on travel    Share

"A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond."

Goldsmith, Oliver on travel    Share

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."

Goldsmith, Oliver on travel
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"When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels."

Dahlberg, Edward on travel
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"The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds."

Cooley, Charles Horton on travel    Share

"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on travel    Share

"Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure."

Huxley, Aldous on travel    Share

"In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge."

Johnson, Samuel on travel    Share

"To love a thing means wanting it to live."

Confucius on love
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"Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it."

Confucius on learning
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"To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

Confucius on knowledge
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"Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others."

Confucius on knowledge
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"I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known."

Confucius on fame
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"Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things."

Confucius on faith
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"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."

Frost, Robert on death
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"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on death
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"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on travel
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I'm male, single from the United States and made my book on 9th September 2007.

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