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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

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The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

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My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophic...more

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We are all born for love it is the principle of existence and its only end.

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Man is only great when he acts from passion.

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The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

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For life in general there is but one decree: youth is a blunder manhood a struggle old age a regret.

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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerus...more

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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.