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Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

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Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.

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The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.

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Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.

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There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all countries, and by all nations; it is the philosopher's stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers not want to break into its dwelling; it is the northwest passage, that brings the merchant's ships as soon to him as he can desire: in a word, it conquers all enemies, and makes fortune itself pay contribution.

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That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it.

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Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

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