It is a lesson

It is a lesson
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
  

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It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.
The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.
We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.
Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.
Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.
If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.
No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought
Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.
Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.