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Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense.

Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense.
– J Christopher Herold

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  2. If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred. – Baruch Spinoza
  3. Great minds believe they will succeed.Average minds doubt they can succeed.Small minds don’t even try to succeed. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  4. Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. – Clive James
  5. Doesn’t matter if you fail to succeed. What matters is, if you fail to try. – Harsh Malik
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  7. Macbeth:If we should fail?Lady Macbeth:We fail?But screw your courage to the sticking place,And we’ll not fail. – William Shakespeare
  8. PATH TO SUCCESS: DREAM. PLAN. DO. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. ACHIEVE! IT’S A MESSY JOURNEY. – Tom Giaquinto
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  11. As is always the case, events do not conform easily to the generalizations historians produce to try to make sense of the past. – Glenn Porter
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  13. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. – Gabrielle Zevin
  14. We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone. – Orson Welles
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  16. The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. – Don Herold
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  22. It’s not hard to fail…it’s hard to accept you failed…but once that’s out of the way, it’s pretty smooth sailing – Josh Stern
  23. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
  24. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
  25. Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well. – Richard Llewellyn
  26. There are books showing men how to succeed in everything they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books. – GK Chesterton
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