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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own."
"They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women."
"A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself."
"Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence."
"Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness."
"There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards."
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