"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."

Angelis, Barbara De on kindness
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"There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat."

Lawrence, Thomas E. on adversity
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"Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise."

Orwell, George on suffering
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"A light heart lives long."

Proverb on life
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"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."

Franklin, Benjamin on peace
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"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."

Carlyle, Thomas on genius
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"The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong."

Bunker, Archie on marriage
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"Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one."

Whately, Richard on men
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"Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword."

Whately, Richard on argument   

"It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary."

Whately, Richard on neglect   

"Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting."

Proverb on wish and wishing
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"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."

Burroughs, John on blame
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"We may be personally defeated, but our principles never."

Garrison, William Lloyd on principles   

"What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are. What we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline."

Liddon, Henry Parry on discipline
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"Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name."

France, Anatole on chance
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"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."

Stark, Freya on happiness
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"While there's life, there's hope."

Cicero, Marcus T. on life
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"Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed."

Chesterfield, Lord on failure   

"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."

Shakespeare, William on evil
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"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it."

Moliere on fate
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"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on socializing and socialism
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"'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on god
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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on gossip
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"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning."

Lao-Tzu on attachment
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"Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund."

Raymond, F. J. on taxes and taxation   

"True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god."

Twain, Mark on irreverence
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"He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor."

Menander of Athens on diligence
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"A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool."

Roux, Joseph on quotations
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"The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life."

Maxim, Samurai on anger
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"Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor."

Hare, David on virtue
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"We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way."

Nightingale, Earl on success
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"In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on integrity
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"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

Huxley, Aldous on education
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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Lincoln, Abraham on power
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"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."

Aristotle on love
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"Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on president   

"Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on knowledge
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"If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on politics   

"A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on right and rightness   

"We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on unity