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I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
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I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
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If you express yourself too much. you're overacting; if you underplay it too much, it can come across as wooden.
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
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Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
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Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
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Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. [The Root Of The Righteous]
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
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Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
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Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say ''In spite of all!'' has the calling for politics.
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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
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