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- They can conquer who believe they can.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
- The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- The secret of being boring is to say everything.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world.
- Scipione Alberti
- Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
- James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
- No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
- Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)
- Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
- A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
- Thomas Overbury (1581 - 1613)
- Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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