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Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an...
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and...
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If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage...
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of...
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Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to...
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Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
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We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking....
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study...
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I have never been hurt by anything I didn’t say.
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Four things come not back — the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past...