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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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A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous…
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History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts…
— Charles Darwin
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On the hob was a little brass kettle, hissing and boiling; spread upon the floor was a warm, thick rug; before the…
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What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that…
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The wearing of fabric head coverings in worship was universally the practice of Christian women until the twentieth century. What happened? Did…
— R C Sproul
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Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.
— Jimmy Dean
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I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will look into the powers…
— Theresa May
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From the fig leaf to the Pharisees to the fashions of the day, we've been doing the same thing: covering up...the only…
— Chris Tiegreen
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