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- We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.
- Charles A. Stoddard
- To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
- Charles Talleyrand
- Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn
- Philip Massinger
- The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will.
- Ferdinand Foch (1851 - 1929)
- But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.
- John Oliver Hobbes
- No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.
- Randolph Silliman Bourne
- Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
- Author Unknown
- Desire creates the power.
- Raymond Holliwell
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