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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that...
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Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue,...
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You have given me a great responsibility to stay close to you, to be...
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We make our fortunes and call them fate.
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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of...
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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her...
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To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet...
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I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men...
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Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the...
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby...