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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by…
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If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he…
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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him,…
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A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps…
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We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted…
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We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is…
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The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the…
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Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a…
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By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of…
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
— Teresa of Avila
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
— Max Beerbohm
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There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment.…
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I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.
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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production…
— Thomas Aquinas
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The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of…
— John Jay Chapman
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In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to…
— John Desmond Bernal
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Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.
— Unknown Author
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In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their…
— John Desmond Bernal
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least…
— Mark Twain
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