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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

— Benjamin Disraeli Misattributed

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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Without publicity there can be no public spirit, and without public spirit every nation must decay.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

Endymion (1880)

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.

Vivian Grey (1826)

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In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1601)

O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,
Why make such game of this poor life of ours?

Horace Satires (-35)

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776)

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