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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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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
— Jean Cocteau
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Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott,…
— Ben Affleck
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Because the demands on the goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is himself. Not a…
— Ken Dryden
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Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never…
— William Butler Yeats
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When you have no idea how to surrender and you're tied up in knots, JUST BREATHE!
— Judith Orloff
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Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the…
— Philip Sidney
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To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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A knot you are of damned bloodsuckers.
— William Shakespeare
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Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by…
— Omar Khayyam
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When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released.
— Reshad Feild
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