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| Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. |
Lord Thomas Dewar |
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| Live.....Laugh.....GOLF |
Kathryn Schaefer Plaum |
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| The expert at anything was once a beginner. |
Hayes |
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| My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. |
J. Brotherton |
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| Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. |
Gail Godwin |
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| When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. |
Norm Crosby |
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| The journey is the reward. |
Taoist Saying |
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| Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. |
George Eliot |
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| Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. |
George Eliot |
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| Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. |
George Eliot |
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| The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. |
George Eliot |
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| It's never too late to be who you might have been. |
George Eliot |
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| The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. |
George Eliot |
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| There are many victories worse than a defeat. |
George Eliot |
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| I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. |
George Eliot |
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| Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. |
George Eliot |
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| Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. |
George Eliot |
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| Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. |
George Eliot |
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| It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them. |
George Eliot |
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| If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find One self-denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went- Then you may count that day well spent. |
George Eliot |
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| There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. |
George Eliot |
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| We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. |
George Eliot |
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| There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. |
George Eliot |
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| Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. |
George Eliot |
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| I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. |
George Eliot |
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| Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken. |
George Eliot |
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| Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. |
George Eliot |
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| It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. |
George Eliot |
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| Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. |
George Eliot |
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| Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. |
George Eliot |
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| Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. |
George Eliot |
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| Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still. |
George Eliot |
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| The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. |
George Eliot |
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| Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. |
George Eliot |
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| The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined. |
George Eliot |
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| Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. |
George Eliot |
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| I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare. |
George Eliot |
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| Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. |
George Eliot |
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| To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise. |
George Eliot |
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| If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. |
George Eliot |
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| One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. |
George Eliot |
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| The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. |
George Eliot |
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| I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. |
George Eliot |
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| The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. |
George Eliot |
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| Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade. |
George Eliot |
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| Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. |
George Eliot |
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| There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots. |
George Eliot |
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| The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth. |
George Eliot |
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| Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way. |
Sophocles |
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| Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. |
Sophocles |
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| To err from the right path is common to mankind. |
Sophocles |
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| He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life. |
Sophocles |
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| Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. |
Sophocles |
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| One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love. |
Sophocles |
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| Someone asked Sophocles, How do you feel now about sex Are you able to have a woman He replied, Hush man most gladly indeed am I rid off it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master. |
Sophocles |
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| Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal. |
Sophocles |
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| Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them. |
Sophocles |
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| None love the messenger who brings bad news. |
Sophocles |
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| Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn. |
Sophocles |
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| To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain. |
Sophocles |
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| Success is dependent on effort. |
Sophocles |
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| A short saying oft contains much wisdom. |
Sophocles |
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| Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart. |
Sophocles |
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| Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected. |
Sophocles |
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| Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it. |
Sophocles |
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| There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. |
Sophocles |
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| To him who is in fear everything rustles. |
Sophocles |
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| It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him. |
Sophocles |
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| The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. |
Sophocles |
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| No man loves life like him that's growing old. |
Sophocles |
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| Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another. |
Sophocles |
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| Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. |
Sophocles |
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| What you cannot enforce, do not command. |
Sophocles |
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| Reason is God's crowning gift to man. |
Sophocles |
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| Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority. |
Sophocles |
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| How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong |
Sophocles |
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| Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. |
Sophocles |
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| Money There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money. |
Sophocles |
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| Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny. |
Sophocles |
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| Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man. |
Sophocles |
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| Nobody likes the man who brings bad news. |
Sophocles |
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| I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either. |
Sophocles |
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| For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues. |
Sophocles |
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| Wisdom outweighs any wealth. |
Sophocles |
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| Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable. |
Sophocles |
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| Death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it. |
Sophocles |
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| Stranger in a strange country. |
Sophocles |
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| It made our hair stand up in panic fear. |
Sophocles |
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| The end excuses any evil. |
Sophocles |
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| The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. |
Sophocles |
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| Death is not the worst thing rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish. |
Sophocles |
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| There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise. |
Sophocles |
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| Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it for tomorrow is not, until today is past. |
Sophocles |
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| Time eases all things. |
Sophocles |
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| The good befriend themselves. |
Sophocles |
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| Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial. |
Sophocles |
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| A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse. |
Sophocles |
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| The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. |
Sophocles |
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| How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth |
Sophocles |
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| The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. |
Johann von Goethe |
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