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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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The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great…
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
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The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws…
— Edward Everett
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A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest convictions. Then,…
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A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town…
— Thomas Wolfe
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Faith stands upon the unshakable foundation of the Promises of God!
— Albert Kang
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He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like…
— Samuel Johnson
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The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all.…
— Lord Of The Rings
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