“The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.”
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“The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.”
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“The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.”
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“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
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“Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.”
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“Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.”
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“The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.”
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“True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
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“The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.”
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“Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.”
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“A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.”
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“Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a...”
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“We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.”
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“Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.”
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“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”
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“To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.”
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“If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.”
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“When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.”
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“Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.”
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“Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune...”
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“No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.”
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