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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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But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves…
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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
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It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)
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My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every…
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. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last…
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You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but…
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The last act crowns the play.
— John Ruskin
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The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.
— Joseph Campbell
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Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort,…
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With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act…
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What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of…
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It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition ... This last act of our…
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