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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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We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure,…
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The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing…
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All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.
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There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love
— Mother Teresa
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The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
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Great people create great acts of kindness.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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He who asks to receive his daily bread does not automatically receive it in its fullness as it is in itself: he…
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I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned…
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
— William Hazlitt
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