Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think.
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Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
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Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
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He who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes.
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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it.
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Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
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Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
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Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening.
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Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
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Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
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It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
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To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
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The way of even the most justifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.
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The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.
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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
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The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions.
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I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything.
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
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I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
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And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury.
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
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He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he can’t Perceive And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe.
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Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.
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Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.
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To which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.
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The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.
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Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
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The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
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It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.
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Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returns, Was not spoken of the soul.
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Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.
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Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
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No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.
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You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from.
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Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
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The only new thing is history we don't know.
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Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
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