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- Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
- Mary Shelly
- The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- There are persons who always find a hair in their plate or soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.
- Christian Friedrich Hebbel
- There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problems of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.
- Robert Chapman
- He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the courage of their convictions.
- Coventry Patmore
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