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It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
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It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
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But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that…
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Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered,…
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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'
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If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat.…
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Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by…
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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing…
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I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence.…
— Charles Darwin
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It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a…
— Elihu Root
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Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.
— Phillips Brooks
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Character is simply habit long continued.
— Plutarch
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All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.
— William Wordsworth
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As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by…
— Samuel Johnson
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Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it…
— Charles Darwin
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[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
— James Hutton
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