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| It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again. |
Aesop |
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| It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters. |
Aesop |
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| In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest. |
Aesop |
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| The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. |
Aesop |
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| Persuasion is often more effectual than force. |
Aesop |
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| Put your shoulder to the wheel. |
Aesop |
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| Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. |
Aesop |
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| We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. |
Aesop |
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| What a splendid head, yet no brain. |
Aesop |
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| People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. |
Aesop |
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| Union gives strength. |
Aesop |
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| It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. |
Aesop |
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| The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. |
Aesop |
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| I am sure the grapes are sour. |
Aesop |
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| Slow and steady wins the race. |
Aesop |
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| I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath. |
Aesop |
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| No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. |
Aesop |
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| While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again. |
Aesop |
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| Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing. |
Aesop |
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| If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one --I am become Death,The shatterer of Worlds. |
Hindu Spiritual |
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| The Devil finds work for idle hands. |
Proverb |
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Proverb |
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| If you love it let it go. If it returns to you cherish it, if not it was never truly yours. |
Proverb |
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| One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. |
Proverb |
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| How many angels are there One - who transforms our live - is plenty. |
Proverb |
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| Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. |
Christopher Morley |
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| Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. |
Christopher Morley |
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| There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. |
Christopher Morley |
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| There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. |
Christopher Morley |
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| Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it. |
Christopher Morley |
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| My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. |
Christopher Morley |
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| Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age. |
Christopher Morley |
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| Music is well said to be the speech of angels. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts. |
Thomas Carlyle |
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| The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. |
Victor Frankl |
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| We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way. |
Victor Frankl |
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| Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. |
Victor Frankl |
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| But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step-dame Studys blows...Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write. |
Sir Philip Sidney |
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| No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue. |
Sir Philip Sidney |
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| They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. |
Sir Philip Sidney |
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| We are the people our parents warned us about. |
Jimmy Buffett |
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| If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me |
Jimmy Buffett |
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| If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. |
Jimmy Buffett |
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| The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. |
John Allston |
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| If you don't control your mind, someone else will. |
John Allston |
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| The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion of fear and pain will eventually make him sell badly. |
Robert Wibbelsman |
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| Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph. |
Haile Selassie |
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| Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. |
Henry Kaiser |
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| Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. |
Thomas Wolfe |
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| You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. |
Thomas Wolfe |
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| If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. |
Thomas Wolfe |
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| If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know. |
Thomas Wolfe |
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| Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. |
Thomas Wolfe |
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| Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. |
Simone Weil |
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| When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, separated by an abyss, is the level where the highest things are achieved. These things are essentially anonymous. |
Simone Weil |
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| Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets. |
Simone Weil |
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| Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this. |
Simone Weil |
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| Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money. |
Simone Weil |
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| The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through |
Simone Weil |
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| Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. |
Simone Weil |
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| If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag wash it. |
Norman Thomas |
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| After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement. |
Norman Thomas |
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| You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience. |
Norman Thomas |
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| The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values. |
Norman Thomas |
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| Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource. |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable. |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country. |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace. |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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