"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint."

Schweitzer, Albert on angels
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"Of two evils, choose neither."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on evil
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"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on enemies
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"Giving is true having."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on giving   

"When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he keeps a very small stock of it within."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on hypocrisy   

"Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on difficulties
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"Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?"

Proverb, English on obstinacy   

"How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say."

Wilde, Oscar on hypocrisy
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"The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs."

Marx, Karl on riches
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"A stumble may prevent a fall."

Proverb, English on adversity
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"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner."

Proverb, English on adversity
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"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on uniqueness
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"A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on words
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"The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on jest   

"Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on freedom
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"Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on guilt   

"Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on life
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"Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on endurance
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"I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on suffering
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"Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it."

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell on life   

"Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on fate
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"There is no respect for others without humility in one's self."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on respectability
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"We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on relationship
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"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on life
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"Great men are not always wise."

Bible on greatness   

"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell on life   

"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle."

Lowell, James Russell on adversity
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"The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market."

Lowell, James Russell on art
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"We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten."

Pavese, Cesare on memory
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"Good is not good, when better is expected."

Fuller, Thomas on expectation
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"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break."

Fuller, Thomas on hope
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"A book that is shut is but a block."

Fuller, Thomas on books - reading   

"Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them."

Fuller, Thomas on compliments   

"If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die."

Hegel, Georg on service   

"Freedom is the only law which genius knows."

Lowell, James Russell on freedom
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"If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent."

Qur'an on god
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"A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing."

Bierce, Ambrose on philosophers and philosophy
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"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."

Bierce, Ambrose on philosophers and philosophy
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"It's not sissy to show your feeling."

Diana, Princess of Wales on feelings
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"It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?"

Diana, Princess of Wales on art