"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."

Hepburn, Katharine on marriage
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"The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them."

Proverb, English on fallibility   

"There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive."

Hoffer, Eric on passion
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"At every word a reputation dies."

Pope, Alexander on gossip   

"One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others."

Moliere on criticism
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"A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose."

Pilgrim, Peace on purpose
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"Trouble shared is trouble halved."

Sayers, Dorothy L. on adversity
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"A functioning police state needs no police."

Burroughs, William S. on police
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"In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool."

Proverb, Yiddish on fools and foolishness   

"They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth."

Plato on truth
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"If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words."

Proverb, Chinese on words
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"There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit."

Woodruff, Robert on credit   

"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

Seneca on death
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"Obscurity brings safety."

Aesop on obscurity
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"Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living."

Twain, Mark on obscurity
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"It is better to be looked over than overlooked."

West, Mae on obscurity
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"The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication."

Aristotle on youth
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"A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable."

Mencken, H. L. on originality   

"Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do."

Kempis, Thomas on god
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"No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live."

Twain, Mark on ridicule   

"Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair."

Ovid on night
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"I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes -- and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue."

Byron, Lord on misers and misery   

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort."

Roosevelt, Theodore on failure
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"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on peace   

"No one has ever learned fully to know themselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on self discovery
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"You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it."

Butler, Samuel on faith
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"The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. "

King Jr. Martin Luther on uncategorised   

"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast."

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia on marriage
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"People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide."

Rogers, Will on law suits
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"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."

Chomsky, Noam on freedom
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"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."

Shaw, George Bernard on lies and lying
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"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail."

Frost, Robert on income   

"Endurance is the crowning quality..."

Lowell, James Russell on perseverance
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"Virtue craves a steep and thorny path."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on virtue   

"When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other."

Gaulle, Charles De on anger
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"Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change."

Popoff, Frank on success
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"The way to be nothing is to do nothing."

Howe, Nathaniel on idleness
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"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."

Mill, John Stuart on belief
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"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty."

Cicero, Marcus T. on fear   

"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity."

Nair, Keshavan on courage
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