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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Honest Maintain Character Possess
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Shallow Frustrating Absolute Understanding
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Employ Improving Writings Labored
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My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.
Will Mine Soft Make
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Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
Pain Heart Despair Wisdom
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How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends

How Had Slain Friend
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Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
Rich Life Poor People
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Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
Lack Direction Problem Time
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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.
Mistake Nothing Because Think
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“It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

Democracy Government Other Worst
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To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.

Spend Manner Waste Forever
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The doubters said, ‘Man can not fly,’ The doers said, ‘Maybe, but we’ll try,’ And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.

Doubt Fly Final Glow
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“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

Time Writing Improve Employ
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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Accept People Inspire Dwell
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Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.

Compare Cease Peace Live
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When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.

Reach Form Water Style
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What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.
What Determine Become Think
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To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

Aspect Easy Special Waste
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The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition.

Determine Trouble Reject Ambition
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“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”

Solitary Grow Strong They
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The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
Best Know Skill Inevitable
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“In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.”

War Often Life Fail
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“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.”

Love Great Freedom Justice
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Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
Curse Mortal Cruel Short
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“We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.”

Logic Innovation Guide Beware
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Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory

Finger Away Moon Glory
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The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action

Self Great Proper Action
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Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.

Allow Negative Weed Mind
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Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged
Man Defeat Discourage Remember
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“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival. ”

Victory Hard Cost Terror
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Most journeys in all of the world start not with bright expectations, a sense of adventure or a bucket and spade, but an empty stomach.

Journey World Bucket Stomach
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
Friend All None
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Human Action Have More
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All human beings, by nature, desire to know.
Human Nature Desire Know
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Best Animal Law Worst
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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Character Most Mean May
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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Educate Mind Heart All
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Good Form Youth Habit
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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Victory Terror Hard Survival
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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival
Heart Suffer Inspiration Survive
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This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Lesson Great Yield Enemy
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“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

Defend Cost Fight Surrender
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“What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.”
Adequacy Standard What All
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“We shall not fail or falter. We shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finis

Trials Battle Fail Weak
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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”

Men Stumble Truth Hurry
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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Shall Show But Mercy
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“All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honour; duty; mercy; hope.”

Simple Freedom Honour Mercy
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Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Ready Learn Being Taught
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All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me
Alcohol Take Out Say
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“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

Courage Quality Human Right
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