"Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

Jefferson, Thomas on control
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"With your talents and industry, with science, and that stedfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thingbut health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of every other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit. "

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"Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I as stedfastly believe. "

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"A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life. 1. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold. 6. We never repent of having eaten too little. 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. 9. Take things always by their smooth handle. 10. When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised
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"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

Washington, George on friends and friendship
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"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company."

Washington, George on association
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"The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself."

Macarthur, Douglas on luck
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"You are remembered for the rules you break."

Macarthur, Douglas on rules
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"There's no security on this earth, only opportunity."

Macarthur, Douglas on security
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"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."

Macarthur, Douglas on soul
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"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul."

Macarthur, Douglas on soul   

"It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh."

Macarthur, Douglas on spirituality
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"In war there is no substitute for victory."

Macarthur, Douglas on war   

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"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."

Macarthur, Douglas on power
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"Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other."

Macarthur, Douglas on courage
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"I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have."

Truman, Harry S on excellence   

"Study men, not historians."

Truman, Harry S on history and historians   

"It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences."

Truman, Harry S on peace
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"How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?"

Truman, Harry S on polls   

"Intense feeling too often obscures the truth."

Truman, Harry S on truth
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"We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are."

Truman, Harry S on truth   

"We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act and, in acting, to live."

Bradley, Omar Nelson on decisions
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"We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live."

Bradley, Omar Nelson on peace
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"We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship."

Bradley, Omar Nelson on vision
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"The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on decisions
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"Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on deeds and good deeds
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"Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on denial   

"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on dream
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"How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on duty
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"People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on eccentricity
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"No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on enemies
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"He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on joy
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"Sowing is not as difficult as reaping."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on farming and farmers   

"Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on feelings
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"Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on focus
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"Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on fortune
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"The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on genius
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"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on achievement
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"One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on agreement
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"A distracted existence leads us to no goal."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on goals
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