"Too much zeal spoils everything."

Proverb on zeal   

"Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."

Adams, Henry Brooks on politics
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"Everyone pushes a falling fence."

Proverb, Chinese on failure
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"Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet."

Chapin Jr., Roy D. on opportunity
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"The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live."

Andrus, Ethel Percy on giving
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"Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong."

Mencken, H. L. on morality   

"We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character."

Thoreau, Henry David on home
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"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on achievement
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"A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."

Orwell, George on tragedies
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"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."

Darrow, Clarence on doubt
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"True poverty does not come from God."

Proverb, Yiddish on poverty and the poor   

"If it is to be, it is up to me."

Johnsen, William H. on self-reliance   

"All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord."

Nightingale, Earl on goals
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"We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage."

Churchill, Winston on age and aging
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"Where there is much freedom there is much error."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on freedom   

"I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on suffering
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"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

Churchill, Winston on success
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"Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything."

Earp, Wyatt on quality   

"A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."

Gibbon, Edward on action
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"Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on courtesy   

"The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity."

Sidney, Sir Philip on credulity
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"Either I will find a way, or I will make one."

Sidney, Sir Philip on resolution
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"Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise."

Brooks, Phillips on life
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"Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off."

Swift, Jonathan on reason   

"Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart."

Cook, Joseph on science   

"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember."

Seneca on memory
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"Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men."

Proverb, Spanish on knowledge
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"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery."

Wilson, Harold on change
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"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."

Aristotle on suffering
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"Prevention is better than cure."

Erasmus, Desiderius on prevention   

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual."

Einstein, Albert on value
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"Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on character
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"The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it."

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert on optimism   

"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."

Bierce, Ambrose on religion
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"It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest."

Wilde, Oscar on saints   

"To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life."

Wilde, Oscar on suffering
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"Time stays long enough for those who use it."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on time
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"I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nationalities and nationalism
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"If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory."

Disraeli, Benjamin on compromise   

"The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain."

Ruskin, John on vanity
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