Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.
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Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
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Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
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A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.
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Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting than being one.
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Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
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A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.
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I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
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Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
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The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
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You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
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Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
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You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
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You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
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Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong.
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I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
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If I were two faced, would I be wearing this one.
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Important principles may and must be inflexible.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path.
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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Sorrow comes to all...Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better and yet you are sure to be happy again.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
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What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way.
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
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I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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