Quote #20131
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Quote #7738
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough...
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Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to...
Quote #17155
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere....
Quote #23255
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
Quote #10992
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that...
Quote #23201
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes...
Quote #8958
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
Quote #8559
It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from...
Quote #11231
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and...