Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

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