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Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.
- John Smith
Collection: Success
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He who does not work, will not eat
- John Smith
Collection: Doe
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The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts.
- John Smith
Collection: Attitude
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Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow rich.
- John Smith
Collection: Men
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Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.
- John Smith
Collection: Found
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History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.
- John Smith
Collection: Memories
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You must obey this now for a law, that he that will not work shall not eat (except by sickness he be disabled). For the labors of thirty or forty honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain a hundred and fifty idle loiterers.
- John Smith
Collection: Men
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The Best way to help the world is to help someone!
- John Smith
Collection: World
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Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.
- John Smith
Collection: Stupid
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Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!
- John Smith
Collection: Cooking
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The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing.
- John Smith
Collection: Pain
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The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.
- John Smith
Collection: Men
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Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.
- John Smith
Collection: Prayer
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To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.
- John Smith
Collection: Spiritual
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With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world
- John Smith
Collection: Country
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Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money.
- John Smith
Collection: Communication
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Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.
- John Smith
Collection: Saint
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But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.
- John Smith
Collection: Long
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The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts.
- John Smith
Collection: Men
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When our people were fed out of the common store, and laboured jointly together, glad was he could slip from his labour, or slumber over his taske he cared not how, nay, the most honest among them would hardly take so much true paines in a weeke, as now for themselves they will doe in a day: neither cared they for the increase, presuming that howsoever the harvest prospered, the generall store must maintaine them, so that wee reaped not so much Corne from the labours of thirtie, as now three or foure doe provide for themselves.
- John Smith
Collection: People
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There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.
- John Smith
Collection: Religion
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I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.
- John Smith
Collection: Thinking
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Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.
- John Smith
Collection: Kings
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Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the Garden of Paradise, the weight and authority of tradition maintains that death is just an alteration in our state of consciousness, and that the quality of our continued existence in the afterlife depends on the quality of our living here and now.
- John Smith
Collection: Spiritual
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How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.
- John Smith
Collection: Generations
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The opportunity to serve our country—that is all we ask.
- John Smith
Collection: Country
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The settled will of the Scottish people.
- John Smith
Collection: People
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As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.
- John Smith
Collection: Geography And History

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