To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
· Alexander Pope
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'Whatever is, is not,' is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like.
· Richard Bentley
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What priming will do to a pump, information and a sincere, understanding 'talking to' will do to an active, impressionable mindget it started, provoke it to think.
· Tiorio
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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared ...
· Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the Advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, And so conquers.
· Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.
· Peter F. Drucker
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
· William Wordsworth
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; theres only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
· Dr. Wayne Dyer
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
· Herman Melville
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Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
· Mahatma Gandhi
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The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.
· Henry Havelock Ellis
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And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.
· Sophocles
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That old bald cheater, Time.
· Ben Jonson
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I was merely the first of a string the length of a carpet snake...She had more love affairs than Lady Lucifer.
· Jack Hibberd
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Music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
· Samual Pepys
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With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.
· Clarence Seward Darrow
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The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
· Henry David Thoreau
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If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also Become pure.
· Guatama Buddha
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Reason is like an officer when the King appears; The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.
· Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi
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The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, But to have them.
· John Tillotson
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The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
· The Bible
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I'd rather look forward and dream, then look backwards and regret.
· Unknown
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so. Quoted in H. Weyl 'Mathematics and the Laws of Nature'
· Galileo Galilei
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Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
· Plato
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There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.
· Dante Alighieri
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All thing is the woorse for the wearing.
· John Heywood
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I beginning to believe it.
· Clarence Seward Darrow
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Shiver me timber.
· Proverb
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Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
· Amy Dacyczyn
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There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the art.
· Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand.
· William Congreve
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Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
· Paul Valry
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Cuisine is when things taste like themselves.
· Curnonsky
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One on God's side is a majority.
· Wendell Phillips
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The work praises the man.
· Proverb
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Just as the moon only reflects its light in a pool, So the mind, empty and unattached, Does not know itself and the outside world As two things.
· Proverb
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We must become the change we want to see in the world.
· Mahatma Gandhi
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'Life Diamond'... Job. Family. Society. Sense of Self...
· Dr. Wayne Dyer
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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
· Anita Brookner
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After giving water to Isaac's servant, Rebekah said: 'I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.'
· Rebekah
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The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
· David Oman McKay
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Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things.
· Marvin J. Ashton
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I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people.... To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
· George Mason
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I have an axe to grind.
· Proverb
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Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternative.
· Maurice Chevalier
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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
· Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Speak with the vulgar, think with the wise.
· Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
· Dr. Samuel Johnson
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Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
· Sir William Osler
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
· Robert Burns
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To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
· Aristotle
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Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
· C. D. Jackson
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Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going, Courtney, for Frances, for her life will be so much happier without me. I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU. [Suicide note. ]
· Kurt Cobain
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Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
· Aesop
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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
· Jack Anderson
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Sin may open bright as the morning, But it will end dark as night.
· Thomas Talmage
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
· Charles Hare
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A green old age, unconscious of decay That proves the hero born in better days.
· Homer
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For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.
· Joseph Addison
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