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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to… — Thomas B. Macaulay
True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven. — Frederick Buechner
We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do not weep for… — Helen Keller
Let me not to the marriage of true minds — William Shakespeare
Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert. — Robert Breault
O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention. — Aristotle
Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was… — Byron Katie
You must have absolute faith in your own perceptions of truth. Never act in haste or hurry; be deliberated in everything; wait until you know… — Wallace D. Wattles
It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining. — Dan Millman
What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made. — Nikola Tesla
Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural… — Thomas Jefferson
An affirmation states that a goal is already happening. I'm not crazy about this because, often when we affirm something that is not yet real,… — T. Harv Eker
But we assure the socialists that we repudiate only forced organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are forced upon us,… — Frederic Bastiat
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is only to secure… — Frederic Bastiat
It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to 'preserve'… — Ayn Rand
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to… — Milton Friedman
The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary… — Walter E. Williams
It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people. — Richard Henry Lee
If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the… — Algernon Sidney
A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who… — Byron Katie
Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires.… — Walter Russell

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