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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
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Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
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Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every…
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show…
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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it…
— Bob Beauprez
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If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We…
— Blaise Pascal
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and…
— Joseph Paxton
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The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately…
— Richard Owen
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Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back…
— Herman Cain
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