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| Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. |
Sir Arthur Helps |
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| I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, 'I am going to bury you. |
Seve Ballesteros |
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| Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. |
Walter Savage Landor |
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| Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. |
Walter Savage Landor |
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| We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier. |
Walter Savage Landor |
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| Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked. |
Walter Savage Landor |
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| We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain. |
Walter Savage Landor |
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| We talk on principle, but we act on interest. |
Walter Savage Landor |
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| People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. |
Walter Savage Landor |
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| In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes. |
John Erksine |
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| If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. |
Muhammad Ali |
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| The man who has no imagination has no wings. |
Muhammad Ali |
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| The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. |
Muhammad Ali |
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| Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. |
Muhammad Ali |
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| The fight is won or lost far away from witnessesbehind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. |
Muhammad Ali |
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| It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am. |
Muhammad Ali |
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| Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. |
Muhammad Ali |
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| Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. |
Muhammad Ali |
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| It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up. |
Muhammad Ali |
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| Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. |
Muhammad Ali |
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| Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. |
Muhammad Ali |
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| Me, we. (Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.) |
Muhammad Ali |
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| Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. |
Muhammad Ali |
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| There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. |
Muhammad Ali |
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| My toughest fight was with my first wife. |
Muhammad Ali |
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| A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. |
Nelson Mandela |
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| Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. |
Nelson Mandela |
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| The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. |
Nelson Mandela |
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| There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. |
Nelson Mandela |
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| For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. |
Nelson Mandela |
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| I have not yet begun to fight |
John Paul Jones |
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| A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. |
Hal Borland |
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| There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things. |
Hal Borland |
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| The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason. |
Hal Borland |
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| I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. |
Hal Borland |
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| If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. |
Hal Borland |
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| A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. |
Robert Burton |
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| Penny wise, pound foolish. |
Robert Burton |
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| Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. |
Robert Burton |
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| A good conscience is a continual feast. |
Robert Burton |
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| No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. |
Robert Burton |
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| Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword. |
Robert Burton |
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| As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing. |
Golda Meir |
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| To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. |
Golda Meir |
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| It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore. |
Golda Meir |
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| We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. |
Golda Meir |
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| Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here. |
Golda Meir |
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| I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively. |
Golda Meir |
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| What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle (On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR) |
Golda Meir |
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| We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others. |
Golda Meir |
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| I don't know why you use a fancy French word like dtente when there's a good English phrase for it-cold war. |
Golda Meir |
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| To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. |
Golda Meir |
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| Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil |
Golda Meir |
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| It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do ... Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. |
Golda Meir |
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| The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world-no ideals. |
Golda Meir |
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| The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight. |
Golda Meir |
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| We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon-no alternative. |
Golda Meir |
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| Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. |
Golda Meir |
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| I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. |
Golda Meir |
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| You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. |
Golda Meir |
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| Don't be so humble - you are not that great. |
Golda Meir |
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| Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing. |
Golda Meir |
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| The shades of night were falling fast,As though an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,A banner with the strange device,ExcelsiorHis brow was sad his eye beneath,Flashed like a falchion from its sheath,And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers,and things are not what they seem.Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| Talk not of wasted affection affection never was wasted. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot in passing. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| To which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| All things must change to something new, to something strange. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| Learn to labour and to wait. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking. |
Vincent McNabb |
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| What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them. |
Vincent McNabb |
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