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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
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The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.
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The players often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio -
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
On War (1832) -
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
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The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.
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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
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The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business.
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
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The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.
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The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.
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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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