“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
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Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
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“All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them”
― A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
― A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.”
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“She had been born knowing that boldness erased fear, while cowardice invited it and earned her only more ill treatment. No matter how she shook with dread in private, she would never show fear before her questioners or her guards. In men's minds fear was a certain mark of guilt.”
― His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester
― His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester
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