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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Success, Dreams

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
George Washington

Government, May, Down

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
Robert Frost

Him, Hands, Among

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt

Great, Mind, Win

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
George Bernard Shaw

Young, Soldier, Old

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
George Bernard Shaw

May, Believes, Acts

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.
Tupac Shakur

Music, Him, Down

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, Great, Worth

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Voltaire

Father, Child, Sit

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
Marcus Aurelius

Time, Says, Thinks

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Elbert Hubbard

Teacher, Him, Child

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun Tzu

Arrogance, Encourage, Pretend

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry Ford

Time, Business, Making

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte

Made, Same, Whatever

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus

Age, After, Face

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
George Bernard Shaw

Time, Himself, Writes

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
George Bernard Shaw

Politics, Car, Mind

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw

Before, Except, Tree

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
Elbert Hubbard

Asking, Wronged, Treatment

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Bill Cosby

Music, Time, Nothing

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Elbert Hubbard

Success, Time, Patience

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Promise, Break, Reasons

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Plato

Single, Moment, Else

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.
Sydney Madwed

Life, Someone, Blame

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
Martin Luther

Great, Heart, Self

His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
Mae West

Mother, Him, Kept

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
Voltaire

Husband, Wife, Often

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich

Woman, Her, Once

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan

Freedom, Someone, Hero

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men, Simple, Needs

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