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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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If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any…
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Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as…
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us,…
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The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases Him.
— Vincent de Paul
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How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old…
— E. W. Howe
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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
— William Hazlitt
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If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . .…
— Ayn Rand
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What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it…
— Jack Kingston
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