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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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The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to…
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An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
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The man who preaches truth and applies it to the lives of his hearers will feel the nails and the thorns. He…
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Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He…
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He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.
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When a person tells others 'Be good,' he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.
— Meher Baba
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He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never…
— Charles Spurgeon
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