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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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Little said is soonest mended.
— George Wither
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No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.…
— James Boswell
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Not so in haste, my heart! Have faith in God and wait; Although he linger long, He never comes too late. He…
— Unknown Author
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I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other.
— Gerald Asher
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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
— William Hazlitt
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From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best…
— John Donne
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Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.
— William Shakespeare
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The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right…
— C.S. Lewis
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And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
— Thomas Moore
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
— Walter Scott
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
— Walter Savage Landor
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