| Quotes |
Topic |
| Adversity | Prosperity is a great teacher, adversity a greater. |
| Adversity | Prosperity is a great teacher, adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind, privation trains and strengthens it. |
| Books | If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. |
| Business | They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill. |
| Cunning | Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. |
| Deceit | Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others. |
| Disguise | We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are, and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom. |
| Evolution | A mighty stream of tendency. |
| Faith | If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. |
| Fame | Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. |
| Familiarity | Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. |
| Friendship | Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship, it is not worth embalming. |
| Gallantry | Gallantry to women--the sure road to their favor--is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it. |
| Genius | Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. |
| Grace | Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. |
| Grace | Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. |
| Greatness | He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. - William Hazlitt, |
| Greatness | No really great man ever thought himself so. - William Hazlitt, |
| Greatness | Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. |
| Humanity | Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been. |
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