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| Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. |
Joseph Addison |
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| If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. |
Joseph Addison |
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| Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. |
Joseph Addison |
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| A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. |
Joseph Addison |
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| What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities. |
Joseph Addison |
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| How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue Who would not be that youth What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country |
Joseph Addison |
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| True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. |
Joseph Addison |
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| Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. |
Joseph Addison |
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| Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. |
Joseph Addison |
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| A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim. |
Kenneth Chang |
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| There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. |
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross |
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| Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from. |
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross |
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| People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. |
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross |
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| It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. |
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross |
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| There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. |
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross |
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| Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. |
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross |
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| Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. |
Michael Levine |
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| Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. |
Michael Pritchard |
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| You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. |
Michael Pritchard |
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| No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather. |
Michael Pritchard |
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| It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. |
Walter Lippmann |
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| When all men think alike, no one thinks very much. |
Walter Lippmann |
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| The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. |
Walter Lippmann |
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| The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. |
Walter Lippmann |
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| Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other. |
Walter Lippmann |
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| People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue. |
Walter Lippmann |
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| Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. |
Walter Lippmann |
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| Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions. |
Walter Lippmann |
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| When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions. |
Walter Lippmann |
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| Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be. |
Jeremy Schwartz |
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| I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie. |
Brad Hull |
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| Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. |
Larry Wall |
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| All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own. |
Oscar W. Firkins |
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| Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders. |
Oscar W. Firkins |
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| It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man. |
David Harris |
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| There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things. |
Robert Lynd |
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| No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil. |
Robert Lynd |
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| There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. |
Robert Lynd |
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| When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time. |
Max McGee |
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| Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. |
James Russell Lowell |
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| In creating, the only hard thing is to begin a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. |
James Russell Lowell |
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| Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty. |
James Russell Lowell |
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| They talk about their Pilgrim blood, Their birthright high and holy A mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy. |
James Russell Lowell |
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| Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. |
James Russell Lowell |
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| We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.' |
James Russell Lowell |
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| One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. |
James Russell Lowell |
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| There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. |
James Russell Lowell |
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| All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. |
James Russell Lowell |
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| But all God's angels come to us disguised... |
James Russell Lowell |
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| It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence. |
James Russell Lowell |
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| As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new,-and near the end The milestones into headstones change, 'Neath every one a friend. |
James Russell Lowell |
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| Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. |
Sren Kierkegaard |
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| Recognition is the greatest motivator. |
Gerard C. Eakedale |
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| The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it-as long as you really believe 100 percent. |
Arnold Schwarzenegger |
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| Money doesn't make you happy. I now have 50 million but I was just as happy when I had 48 million. |
Arnold Schwarzenegger |
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| There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. |
William Osler |
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| We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it. |
William Osler |
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| Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows. |
William Osler |
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| In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. |
William Osler |
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| Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. |
William Osler |
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| One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. |
William Osler |
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| Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. |
William Osler |
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| The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. |
William Osler |
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| No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. |
Sylvia Ashton-Warner |
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| Truth has beauty, power and necessity. |
Sylvia Ashton-Warner |
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| To measure the man, measure his heart. |
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes |
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| Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. |
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes |
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| When you cease to dream you cease to live. |
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes |
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| A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it. |
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes |
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| Diversity the art of thinking independently together. |
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes |
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| Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are. |
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes |
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| Failure is success if we learn from it. |
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes |
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| Do what's right. Do it right. Do it right now. |
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes |
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| If you never budge, don't expect a push. |
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes |
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| People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too. |
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes |
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| Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. |
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes |
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| If you have a job without aggravation, you don't have a job. |
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes |
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| It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles. |
Claude M. Bristol |
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| Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly. |
Claude M. Bristol |
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| Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage. |
Claude M. Bristol |
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| Rough wind, that moanest loudGrief too sad for songWild wind, when sullen cloudKnells all the night longSad storm, whose tears are vain,Bare woods, whose branches strain,Deep caves and dreary main, - Wail, for the world's wrong |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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| Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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| History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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| I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good. |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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| Our sweetest songs are those that tell the saddest thoughts. |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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| We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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| I am the toughest golfer mentally. |
Tiger Woods |
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| If you have a lemon, make lemonade. |
Howard Gossage |
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| To do two things at once is to do neither. |
Publilius Syrus |
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| He who lives in solitude may make his own laws. |
Publilius Syrus |
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| Practice is the best of all instructors. |
Publilius Syrus |
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| The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself. |
Publilius Syrus |
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| The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. |
Publilius Syrus |
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| If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. |
Publilius Syrus |
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| No one knows what he can do till he tries. |
Publilius Syrus |
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| Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness. |
Publilius Syrus |
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| Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them. |
Publilius Syrus |
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| Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. |
Publilius Syrus |
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| Debt is the slavery of the free. |
Publilius Syrus |
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| Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. |
Publilius Syrus |
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