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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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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in…
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Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by…
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These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.
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Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal…
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He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God.
— John Owen
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Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room…
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