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- He who has never hoped can never despair.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 4
- Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
- The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Philanderer (1898) act 2
- Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855), from Sartorius von Waltershausen, "Gauss zum Gedachtniss" [1856]
- There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903
- Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
- Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
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