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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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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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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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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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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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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.
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To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance.…
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The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it.…
— William Hazlitt
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It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to…
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There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas.…
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The eighteen years he has lived seem but a moment, a breathing space in the long march of humanity. Already he hears…
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All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.
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I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space…
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