“Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle”
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“Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle”
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man”
“Egoist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me”
“Few sons attain the praise of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace”
“Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life”
“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything”
“We all are worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm”
“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live”
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds”
“Cowards die many times before their actual deaths”
“Men of few words are the best men”
“One man excels in eloquence, another in arms”
“The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity”
“Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. ”
“Reputation is what others think of us; character is what God and the angels know of us”
“I may be no better than other people, but at least I am different”
“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living”
“I have lerned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers”
“I do not know myself and God forbid that I should”
“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves”