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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our…
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In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
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Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child…
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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
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When we build, let us think that we build forever.
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet,…
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There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
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Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
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Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing,…
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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
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All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.
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The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many…
— Robert Fulton
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Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not…
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Common sense is not always common practice.
— Stephen Covey
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Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it…
— Adam Gopnik
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Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.
— Will Rogers
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After the fire, when I'd tried to express my gratitude for their kindness to our customers, they'd been awkward, uncomfortable. My father…
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
— John Ruskin
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Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is…
— Ethan Zuckerman
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Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.
— Robin S. Sharma
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