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Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough-there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies genius and magic. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel. — Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

Happiness is the best adventure on earth. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers. — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin? — Sir Aubrey De Vere, 2nd Baronet

Wise men and gods are on the strongest side. — Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet

In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method. — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it. — Sir Edward Hulse, 6th Baronet

Listen to what children have to say-their windows to the soul are unclouded. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman. — Anthony Eden

There is no greater thing two friends can do for each other than simply to be each other's friends. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

As soon as you recognize that you are able to control your thoughts, happiness will come within your reach. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

This meant in terms of social standing the baronet was so high above me that if he were a star, I would not be able to see him with the naked eye. — Patrick Rothfuss

The best motto for a long march is 'Don't grumble. Plug on. — Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet

There is no safer feeling than the comfort of sheltering from life's storms in the harbor of friendship. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

One cannot live a creative life without first letting go of the fear of being wrong. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Some people say there are plenty of fish in the sea - until you find love - then there is only one. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

...but an amiable handsome baronet, who said 'Exactly' to her remarks even when she expressed uncertainty, - how could he affect her as a lover? — George Elliot

Also was remembering the baronet who might have been his father. He reached — Diana Gabaldon

What is this 'baronet'?" the prince asked.
"Endlessly in between," Harry replied with a sigh. "A bit like purgatory, really. — Julia Quinn

The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement. — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

I have heard many arguments which influenced my opinion, but never one which influenced my vote. — Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet

A wise man will keep his suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Consummated science is positively humble. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Lovers, like dying men, may well
At first disorder'd be,
Since none alive can truly tell
What Fortune they must see. — Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet

Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed. — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

The road to a clinic goes through the pathologic museum and not through the apothecary's shop. — Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet

Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried ... and we shall see. — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

Don't rely on others to show you the way. Carry your own map. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart. — Sir Aubrey De Vere, 2nd Baronet

In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

HH Beard has perfected ... 3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better ... in 1942 and onwards. — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

When change itself can give no more, 'T is easy to be true. — Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet

Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry. — Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought,
that is of the necessary conditions to which thought considered in itself is a subject. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance! — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

You hold your future in your own hands. Never waver in this belief. — Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet

Read something that YOU want to read, not something that you feel compelled to read. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains — Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

Sir Trevor Fitzwilliam, baronet, of Blackcliff Hall," he said, "at your service. And you would be?"
"Unconvinced," Gwen said. — Regina Scott

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet