"Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have."

Crockett, Davy on Government
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"The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray."

Villiers, George on World
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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Edison, Thomas A. on Opportunity
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"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

Edison, Thomas A. on Perseverance
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"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."

Edison, Thomas A. on Failure
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"When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes."

Edison, Thomas A. on Perseverance
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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

Edison, Thomas A. on Perseverance
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"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

Carver, George Washington on Failure
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"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."

Edison, Thomas A. on Failure
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work."

Edison, Thomas A. on Failure
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"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Edison, Thomas A. on Genius
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"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

Edison, Thomas A. on Ability
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"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."

Edison, Thomas A. on Ideas
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"We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything."

Edison, Thomas A. on Knowledge
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"Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth."

Edison, Thomas A. on Maturity
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"The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around"

Edison, Thomas A. on Mind
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"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves."

Edison, Thomas A. on Possibilities
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"The best thinking has been done in solitude."

Edison, Thomas A. on Solitude
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"What you are will show in what you do."

Edison, Thomas A. on Action
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"There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking."

Edison, Thomas A. on Thoughts and Thinking
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"In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future."

Stendhal, Henri B. on Love Ended
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"If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us."

Mead, Shepherd on Excellence
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"Faith lives in honest doubt."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Faith
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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Knowledge
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"I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Love
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"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Love
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"Who is wise in love, love most, say least."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Love
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"Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Pain
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"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Power
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"Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."

Smith, Liz on Gossip
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"Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."

Smith, Liz on Action
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"We may give advice, but not the sense to use it."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on Advice
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"We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on Desire
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"True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on Eloquence
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"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one."

Dyer, Wayne on Action
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"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."

Dyer, Wayne on Slavery
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"Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility."

Dyer, Wayne on Possibilities
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"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

Angelis, Barbara De on Love
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"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred."

Angelis, Barbara De on Love
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"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

Angelis, Barbara De on Adversity
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