Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Author:
Aristotle
Subject:
Courage   
Human Nature   
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October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Humor   
Business   
Stocks   
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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Love & Romance   
Mankind   
Human Nature   
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Here's to woman! Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
Subject:
Humor   
Women   
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Author:
Edgar Allan Poe
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
Subject:
Health   
Excercise   
American Presidential Quotes   
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It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
Subject:
Success   
Learning   
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I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
Author:
Eleanor Roosevelt
Subject:
Work   
Retirement   
American First Lady Quotes   
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"A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal." So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Politics   
Diplomacy   
American Presidential Quotes   
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
Author:
George Bernard Shaw
Subject:
Life   
Excellence   
Time   
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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
Subject:
Past   
Future   
Present   
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
Subject:
Enemy   
Fear   
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The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Beauty   
God   
American Presidential Quotes   
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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Author:
Aristotle
Subject:
Success   
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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
Author:
George Bernard Shaw
Subject:
Wisdom   
Age   
Youth   
Work: Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Author:
Plato
Subject:
Life   
Conflict   
War   
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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Humor   
Speech   
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I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.
Author:
Albert Einstein
Subject:
Destruction   
War   
Mistakes   
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All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
Author:
Henry David Thoreau
Subject:
Work   
Future   
Perseverance   
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Author:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Subject:
Life   
Reality   
Time   
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