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- Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
- John Keats (1795 - 1821)
- Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
- John Keats (1795 - 1821)
- The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
- Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007)
- The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.
- Joseph Farrell
- The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
- Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)
- Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
- Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
- Sir Richard Steele
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