It is not the whip

It is not the whip
It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.
  

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The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.
Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.
Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind
A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.
If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore
If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.
Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.
Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.