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• The government was contemplating the dispatch of an expedition to Burma
  with a view to taking Rangoon, and a question arose as to who would be the fittest general to be sent in command of the expedition....
• A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies.
  Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?...
• To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?
  To die: to sleep: No more; and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation devoutly to be wish'd....
• Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum
  one man will think he is the governer of the Bank of England, another will think he is the king, and yet another will think he is God....
• Give us, O give us, the man who is cheerful in his work!
  Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness....
• The egoist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others.
  He is the man who stands above the need of using others in any manner....
• He who would leap high must take a long run. -- Proverb
• To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know mot merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.
  There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted...
• A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight fo
  othing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself....