"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on potential
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"Wherever there is power there is age."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on power   

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography."

Wilde, Oscar on disciples
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"People who are sensible about love are incapable of it."

Yates, Douglas on love
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"I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror."

Vicious, Sid on love
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"Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval."

Monson, Thomas S. on courage   

"By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on equality   

"Poets are born, not paid."

Mizner, Addison on poetry and poets   

"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder."

Escher, M. C. on wonder   

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away."

Parker, Dorothy on love
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"There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love
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"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun."

Groening, Matt on love
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"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on love
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"Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on love
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"No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday."

Pope, Alexander on humility
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"Before honor is humility."

Bible on humility
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"The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod."

Billings, Josh on humility
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"Without humility there can be no humanity."

Buchan, John on humility
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"They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud."

Burton, Robert on humility   

"The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the humble."

Cass, Eli on humility
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"Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain."

Davis, Joe on humility
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"Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in."

Flaubert, Gustave on humility   

"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."

Gaulle, Charles De on humility
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"One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on humility
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"A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him."

Howe, Edgar Watson on humility
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"Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on humility
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"Humility is no substitute for a good personality."

Lebowitz, Fran on humility   

"Don't be humble, you're not that great."

Meir, Golda on humility
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"Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows."

Nielsen, Helen on humility
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"The humble and meek are thirsting for blood."

Orton, Joe on humility   

"If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself."

Pascal, Blaise on humility
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"The humble are in danger when those in power disagree."

Phaedrus on humility   

"Too much humility is pride."

Proverb, German on humility
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"A man who is at the top is a man who has the habit of getting to the bottom."

Rogers, Joseph E. on humility
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"A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity."

Ruckett on humility
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"The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings."

Sheen, Fulton John on humility
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"Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on humility   

"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."

Tagore, Rabindranath on humility
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"Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights."

Thoreau, Henry David on humility
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