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| Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| How many observe Christ's birthday How few, his precepts O 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Use no hurtful deceit think innocently and justly and if you speak, speak accordingly. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| If you would be loved, love and be lovable. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Without justice courage is weak. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| He that lives upon hope will die fasting. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Drive thy business or it will drive thee. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Who is rich He that is content. Who is that Nobody. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Fish and visitors smell in three days. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Creditors have better memories than debtors. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Wish not so much to live long as to live well. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. |
Walter Kerr |
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| Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise. |
Charles Horton Cooley |
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| An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one. |
Charles Horton Cooley |
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| One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. |
Charles Horton Cooley |
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| When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him. |
Charles Horton Cooley |
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| Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. |
Charles Horton Cooley |
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| We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first. |
Charles Horton Cooley |
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| The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. |
Diogenes |
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| The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows. |
Aristotle Onassis |
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| If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. |
Aristotle Onassis |
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| Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.' |
Russell Long |
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| The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little. |
Porterfield |
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| Merrill One time, I was at this party... and I was sitting on the couch with Amanda McKinney. She was just sitting there, looking beautiful. So, I lean in to kiss her, and I realize I have gum in my mouth. So, I turn to spit it out and put it in a paper cup. I turn back, and Amanda McKinney throws up all over herself. I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered. |
Signs |
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| Merrill Morgan, this crop stuff is just about a bunch of nerds who never had a girlfriend their whole lives. They're like thirty now. They make up secret codes and analyze Greek mythology and make secret societies where other guys who never had girlfriends can join in. They do stupid crap like this to feel special. It's a scam. Nerds were doin' it twenty five years ago and new nerds are doing it again. |
Signs |
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| Tracy I swore 37 times in the last month. I said the 'f-word' a couple of times, but it was mostly 'shit's and 'bastard's. Is 'douche bag' a curse Graham I suppose it would depend on the context. Tracy How about John you're a douche bag for kissing Barbara Graham It's a curse. Tracy Oh, well then it's not 37 times it's 71 times. |
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| Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences |
Signs |
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| Graham Swing away Merrill. Merrill... swing away. |
Signs |
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| Bo There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water |
Signs |
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| As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. |
John Lancaster Spalding |
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| The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds. |
John Lancaster Spalding |
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| The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is. |
John Lancaster Spalding |
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| Leave each one his touch of folly it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry. |
John Lancaster Spalding |
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| Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons. |
John Lancaster Spalding |
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| The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. |
Plutarch |
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| Learn to be pleased with everything with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied. |
Plutarch |
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| The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. |
Plutarch |
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| The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him. |
Plutarch |
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| Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. |
Plutarch |
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| Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. |
Plutarch |
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| It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. |
Plutarch |
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| An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave. |
Plutarch |
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| Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. |
Plutarch |
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| The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. |
Plutarch |
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| For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. |
Plutarch |
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| Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. |
Plutarch |
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| No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage. |
Plutarch |
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| Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. |
Plutarch |
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| To find a fault is easy to do better may be difficult. |
Plutarch |
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| When the candles are out all women are fair. |
Plutarch |
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| The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it. |
Plutarch |
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| The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. |
Linus Pauling |
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| Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer. |
Ernest Holmes |
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| 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' -- that is allYe know on Earth, and all ye need to know. |
John Keats |
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| The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. |
John Keats |
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| I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affection and the truth of imagination. |
John Keats |
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| What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. |
John Keats |
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| I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. |
John Keats |
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| The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted thence proceeds mawkishness. |
John Keats |
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| Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul |
John Keats |
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| Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. |
John Keats |
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| There is a budding morrow in midnight. |
John Keats |
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| The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. |
John Keats |
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| Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they |
John Keats |
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| I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not. |
John Keats |
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| Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. |
John Keats |
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| Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. |
John Keats |
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| I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. |
John Keats |
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| Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet. |
Michael Brian Schiffer |
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| The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. |
Horace Walpole |
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| The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. |
Horace Walpole |
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| The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is sort of a Divine accident. |
Horace Walpole |
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| Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. |
Les Brown |
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| A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly. . . . Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party |
Les Brown |
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| We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams. |
Les Brown |
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| Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. |
Salvador Dali |
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| The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. |
Salvador Dali |
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| The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. |
Salvador Dali |
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| There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. |
Salvador Dali |
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| Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. |
Salvador Dali |
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| Efficiency is intelligent laziness. |
David Dunham |
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| Youth fades love droops, the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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