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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't-it just keeps you from enjoying it.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Know and believe in yourself, and what others think won't disturb you.

Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.

On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success often erroneously attributed to good luck.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Conscience is a man's compass.