"Marriage is the death of hope."

Allen, Woody on marriage
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"A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."

Santayana, George on patriotism
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"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."

Ashe, Arthur on giving
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"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government."

Burke, Edmund on government
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"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."

Ruth, Babe on perseverance
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"Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scripture declares him twice-blessed."

Talmud, The on war   

"There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined."

Twain, Mark on vulgarity
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"Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast."

Swindoll, Charles on difficulties
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."

Adams, John on evolution
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"No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on self-reliance
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"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better."

Rohn, Jim on leadership
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"There is something in omens."

Ovid on magic
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"Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge."

Wesley, John on books - reading
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"Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny."

Burke, Edmund on law and lawyers
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"As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones."

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De on god   

"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on science
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"People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on contradiction
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"Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate."

Sallust on sincerity   

"A place for everything, and everything in its place."

Beeton, Isabella Mary on organization
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"If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere."

Ziglar, Zig on friends and friendship
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"Love the giver more than the gift."

Young, Brigham on love
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"Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise."

Prior, Matthew on tact and tactfulness   

"Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought."

Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert on discovery
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"He who has lost honor can lose nothing more."

Syrus, Publilius on honor
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"Well done, is better than well said."

Franklin, Benjamin on example
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"The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves."

Hoffer, Eric on favors
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"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -"

Budgell, Eustace on friends and friendship
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"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it."

Friedman, Milton on power
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"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth."

Ibsen, Henrik on ideals and idealism
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"It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on men
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"When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."

Hamilton, Edith on freedom
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"The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences."

Saying, Zen on choice   

"A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law."

Twain, Mark on crime and criminals   

"I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on success
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"To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men."

Ellis, Havelock on leadership
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"The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty."

Syrus, Publilius on thrift   

"Here is a field open for talent; and here, merit will a have certain favor, and industry is graced with its due reward."

Claudius on merit   

"Say not always what you know, but always know what you say."

Claudius on speakers and speaking
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"Poverty makes you sad as well as wise."

Brecht, Bertolt on poverty and the poor   

"Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on quotations
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