“The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.”
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“Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.”
“Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.”
“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.”
“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”
“Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.”
“For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.”
“Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.”
“The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.”
“The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.”
“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.”
“Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.”
“In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.”
“A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.”
“The best vision is insight.”
“You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.”
“Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.”
“In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.”
“It is best to live however one can be.”
“One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.”
“I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!”
“Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.”
“The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.”
“You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.”