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"I will never be below the title."
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Personal Development
"Scholars will argue with each other about everything."
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Personal Development
"I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box."
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Personal Development
"Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them."
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Personal Development
"Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you."
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Personal Development
"The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer."
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"We can choose to live under the ruler-ship of God or under the ruler-ship of the devil."
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"Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long."
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"Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts."
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"Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for."
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"Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better."
Politics
"Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year."
Truth
"Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty."
Trust
"Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil."
Devil
"I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!"
Leadership
"Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone."
Nation
"Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made."
Politics
"It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen."
Work
"My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive."
Happiness
"Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat."
Time
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