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| The home is the chief school of human virtues. |
William Ellery Channing |
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| The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. |
William Ellery Channing |
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| To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth. |
William Ellery Channing |
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| Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. |
William Ellery Channing |
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| Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. |
William Ellery Channing |
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| Error is discipline through which we advance. |
William Ellery Channing |
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| To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony. |
William Ellery Channing |
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| Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. |
William Ellery Channing |
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| Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves. |
William Ellery Channing |
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| Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. |
William Ellery Channing |
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| I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves. |
E. M. Forster |
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| If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. |
E. M. Forster |
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| Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. |
E. M. Forster |
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| We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. |
E. M. Forster |
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| I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. |
E. M. Forster |
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| Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake. |
E. M. Forster |
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| But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable. |
E. M. Forster |
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| There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing. |
Roger Caras |
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| Ae fond kiss, and then we severA farewell, and then foreverDeep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves himMe, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me. |
Robert Burns |
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| The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley. |
Robert Burns |
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| The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creatureBut still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid featureYet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extendedAn atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended. |
Robert Burns |
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| Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change. |
Robert Burns |
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| The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy |
Robert Burns |
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| I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission. |
Robert Burns |
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| O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. |
Robert Burns |
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| For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. |
Judy Garland |
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| I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. |
Judy Garland |
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| Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. |
Judy Garland |
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| Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else. |
Judy Garland |
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| Practice is everythingThis is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect. |
Periander |
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| Freedom is a clear conscience. |
Periander |
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| The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. |
W. M. Lewis |
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| The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. |
Thomas B. Macaulay |
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| It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. |
Thomas B. Macaulay |
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| The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. |
Thomas B. Macaulay |
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| No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things. |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked. |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach. |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| God creates men, but they choose each other. |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building. |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it. |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| There are three classes of intellects one which comprehends by itself another which appreciates what others comprehend and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless. |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands. |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect. |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are. |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content. |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. |
Charlie Parker |
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| The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. |
Honore' de Balzac |
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| Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. |
Honore' de Balzac |
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| True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. |
Honore' de Balzac |
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| No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. |
Honore' de Balzac |
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| A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea. |
Honore' de Balzac |
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| He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. |
Honore' de Balzac |
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| When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. |
Honore' de Balzac |
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| Behind every great fortune there is a crime. |
Honore' de Balzac |
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| Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. |
Honore' de Balzac |
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| The more one judges, the less one loves. |
Honore' de Balzac |
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| What is art Nature concentrated. |
Honore' de Balzac |
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| The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. |
Honore' de Balzac |
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| One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. |
Honore' de Balzac |
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| It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be wiity every day than to say pretty things from time to time. |
Honore' de Balzac |
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| I believe in the incomprehensibility of God. |
Honore' de Balzac |
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| Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything familiarity. |
Honore' de Balzac |
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| Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire. |
Honore' de Balzac |
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| Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. |
Honore' de Balzac |
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| First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time. |
Honore' de Balzac |
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| I am a galley slave to pen and ink. |
Honore' de Balzac |
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| The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen. |
Robert L. Schwartz |
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| Don't let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. |
Richard L. Evans |
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| I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing. |
S. G. Tallentyre |
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| Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. |
Igor Stravinski |
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| Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. |
Euripides |
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| The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought. |
Euripides |
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| The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. |
Euripides |
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| Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe. |
Euripides |
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| A bad beginning makes a bad ending. |
Euripides |
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| It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. |
Euripides |
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| Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. |
Euripides |
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| A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten. |
Euripides |
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| Youth is the best time to be rich and the best time to be poor. |
Euripides |
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| Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world. |
Euripides |
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| Cowards do not count in battle they are there, but not in it. |
Euripides |
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| Second thoughts are ever wiser. |
Euripides |
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| A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness. |
Euripides |
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| Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. |
Euripides |
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| Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. |
Euripides |
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| Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far. |
Euripides |
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| The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them. |
Euripides |
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| The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. |
Euripides |
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| Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. |
Euripides |
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| Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold. |
Euripides |
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| Account no man happy till he dies. |
Euripides |
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| There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change. |
Euripides |
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| This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. |
Euripides |
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