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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. – Theodore Roosevelt

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. – Theodore Roosevelt

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. – Theodore Roosevelt

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. – John Stuart Mill

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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Give to everyone who begs from you and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them. – Jesus Christ

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