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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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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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We are bound to expire. Even metal which is sturdiest, rusts. Even oxygen, the breath of life, soon transpires.
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Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts.
— Alfred Schnittke
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If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the gospel be preached, he would suffer less…
— Martin Luther
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I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
— W.C. Fields
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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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If it rusts, it can never be trusted If its owner fails to control it, it will cut him Yes, pride is…
— Tite Kubo
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Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation...even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use
— William Hazlitt
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