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That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
Unknown
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Star Jordan
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Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
Henry David Thoreau
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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
Robin Morgan
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Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Groucho Marx
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...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
William Hazlitt
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Where there is no property, or at least none that exceeds the value of two or three days' labour, civil government is not so necessary.
Adam Smith
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater
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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
Frederich Nietzsche
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.
Vernon Law
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Oprah Winfrey
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
Thomas Jefferson
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It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
C. S. Lewis
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Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
Thomas H. Huxley
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The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.
Jeff Melvoin
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I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.
Kahlil Gibran
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
A. E. Housman
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
David H. Comins
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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey
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Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward- your destiny-are here and now.
Dag Hammarskjold
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There isn't much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren't really living without it.
Real Live Preacher
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One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.
Etty Hillesum
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I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Mozart
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It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
Jerry Garcia
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I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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I never pay any attention to anyone's praise or blame, I simply follow my own feelings.
Mozart
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It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.
Asoka
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Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
William Shakespeare
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If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
William Blake
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
Les Brown
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When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
David Eddings
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Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Clint Eastwood
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
Sir Francis Bacon
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Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.
Lewis Grizzard
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The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
Rita Mae Brown
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