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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and…
— Oliver Ellsworth
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
— Sallust
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Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that…
— Blaise Pascal
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Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.
— Alexander the Great
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The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.
— Chanakya
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Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do.…
— Cormac McCarthy
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All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.
— Richard Whately
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Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.
— Unknown Author
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Young men wish for : money,sex,and weed . One day, they'll pray for: health, love and long life when its all said…
— Frenchqueen
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