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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Respect is love in plain clothes.
Respect is love in plain clothes.
Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.
Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, read more
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot read more
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to read more
Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
