Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
No one can wear a mask for very long.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
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It is pleasant at times to play the madman.
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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.
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If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
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He will live ill who does not know how to die well.
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In a false quarrel there is no true velour.
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The argument is at an end.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Frisbee Arianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
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You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicate ways, improve yourself.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore, avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security, he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper. Dr.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities!
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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
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Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
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Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the busiest life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
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Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
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If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
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We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
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No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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There exist only three being’s worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
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