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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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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin,…
— Lord Byron
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In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If…
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
— William Hazlitt
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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
— William Penn
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is…
— Baruch Spinoza
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One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with…
— Edmund Spenser
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1 - 2 - 3 To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. William Penn…
— William Penn
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