Ivan Panin Quotes
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For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
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The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.
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The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.
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As long as I fear my weakness, I am stronger than when I trust my strength.
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Experience is the only good 'tis safer to borrow than to buy.
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It needs as much generosity to take as to give.
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Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it.
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Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.
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If you must hate a man for the many things about which you disagree, remember that you should also love him for the many things…
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The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.
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Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.
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Though my sight be lost, I do not yet lose my faith: when I can no longer see, I can still believe.
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Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.
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Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.
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What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.
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We are not men, but promises of men.
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To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how…
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As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.
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For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
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However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.
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