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Know yourself and you will win all battles. Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still… — Sun Tzu
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some… — Napoleon Hill
Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy… — Ephrem the Syrian
The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from… — Robert Stawell Ball
Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity. — Samuel Johnson
Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be… — Hannah Arendt
Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. — Lord Byron
Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all directions as if… — Thor Heyerdahl
Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and… — Lucretius
Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful. — George Santayana
I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations. — Benjamin Disraeli
A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms. — Richard Henry Lee
When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we… — W. Somerset Maugham
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club -… — Spiro T. Agnew
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. — Abraham Lincoln
Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves. — Aristotle
The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'... — William Blake
Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality and feel it… — Victor J. Stenger
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would… — Jonathan Swift
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions… — Simon Newcomb
My present and most fixed opinion regarding the nature of alcoholic fermentation is this: The chemical act of fermentation is essentially a phenomenon correlative with… — Louis Pasteur
There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they… — Jean de la Bruyere
It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one. — Thomas Carlyle
The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting as… — John C. Calhoun

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