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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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I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing…
— Herbert Croly
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It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing…
— David Livingstone
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The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Children, we cannot control our mind without controlling our desire for taste. The health aspect, not the taste, should be the prime…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between…
— William Hazlitt
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The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as…
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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I speak the foregoing truth, the same old truth the wise spoke, to the left savages of this world.
— Simon Quperlier
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