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“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”
― George Washington

“Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education. I am older than you, have felt badly myself, and know, what I tell you is true. Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all you life.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“One must be cunning and wicked in this world.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Don't keep looking for "something" in the bag of "nothing". You will see the same thing again and again no matter how many times you repeat the look.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!”
― C.S. Lewis

“It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.”
― Leo Tolstoy

He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Our schedules are so hectic we can’t get everything done, or else we are bored and restless, constantly looking for something to amuse us. We are the most frantic generation in history—and also the most entertained. The Bible tells us that both extremes are wrong.”
― Billy Graham

“Compass rules direction; Decision rules life!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Beware; satan visits you by the noises of negatively minded people. Hear, but don't act on it!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Through our scientific genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood; now through our moral and spiritual development, we must make of it a brotherhood. In a real sense, we must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We must come to see that no individual can live alone. We must all live together; we must all be concerned about each other.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

“You can be in the storm, but don’t let the storm get in you.”
― Joel Osteen

“If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Know your enemy — and learn about his favorite sport.”
― Nelson Mandela

“life has a way of forcing decisions on those who vacillate.”
― Nelson Mandela

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