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The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor
He makes no friend who never made a foe. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. — Walter Savage Landor
Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was. — John Suckling
Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both. — William Hazlitt
Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity. — Robert Kennedy
He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously. — Oliver Goldsmith
Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce. — Henry Ward Beecher
He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. — Horace
It's funny. I'm attracted to things that don't have any impact on life. People say I've done a great thing for women. I don't think… — Joan Benoit
It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building. — Oscar Wilde
I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists in… — Charles Darwin
The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times… — John Powell
Thought makes everything fit for use. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is what makes life fun. — Billy Collins
Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good,… — Amy Poehler
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone. — Nina Simone

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