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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand....
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections....
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another....
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies...
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are....
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have su...
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know....
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men....
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees....
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism....

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Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring....
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