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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
Democritus
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Denis Diderot
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The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself.
Sir John Holt
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
Jimmy Breslin
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
E. Joseph Crossman
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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
William Hazlitt
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy
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Whenever you come to a 'Y' in the road always remember that you have a third choice of path: And that is right down the middle, where no one has gone before.
Kyle McPherson
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Muriel Strode
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Thomas Paine
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We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
Athol Fugard
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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers. No servant or disciple can dress the wound. You dress it yourself or continue bleeding for all to see.
Frank Herbert
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Dryden
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There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.
Phylicia Rashad
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Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.
Robert J. Sawyer
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A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
Soren Kierkegaard
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If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccollo Machavelli
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New Jersey needs a hero. Bon Jovi does not count.
Kurt Angle, Gold Medal Olympic
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Failure is defined by our reaction to it.
Oprah Winfrey
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Eventually, somebody is going to be a hero, and somebody's going to be president. Not necessarily the same person.
Howard Baker Jr.
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Justice Marshall has made his decision. Let him enforce it.
Andrew Jackson
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Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero.
George Moore
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He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen,
William Shakespeare
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Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.
William Shakespeare
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I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.
William Shakespeare
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A great flame follows a little spark.
Dante Alighieri
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To add insult to injury.
Phaedrus
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It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Publilius Syrus
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On action alone be thy interest,
Bhagavad Gita
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Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
Mencius
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You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
Demosthenes
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Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.
Herodotus
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Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
Herodotus
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Time cancels young pain.
Euripedes
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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
Euripedes
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Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
Confucious
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The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
Confucious
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
M. Kathleen Casey
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