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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. ”
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. ”
As is our confidence, so is our capacity. ”
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. ”
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. ”
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. ”
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. ”
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. ”
Zeal will do more than knowledge. ”
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. ”