"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things."

Bell, Lawrence D. on things and little things
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"Don't trust the person who has broken faith once."

Shakespeare, William on trust
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"Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of."

Franklin, Benjamin on time
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"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."

Franklin, Benjamin on action
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"Half wits talk much, but say little."

Franklin, Benjamin on speakers and speaking
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"To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare."

Franklin, Benjamin on affliction
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"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse."

Franklin, Benjamin on discontent
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"Energy and persistence alter all things."

Franklin, Benjamin on energy
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"Clean your finger before you point at my spots."

Franklin, Benjamin on hypocrisy
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"There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."

Franklin, Benjamin on friends and friendship
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"The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands."

Franklin, Benjamin on eyes
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Franklin, Benjamin on expectation
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"Nothing preaches better than the act."

Franklin, Benjamin on example
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"Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."

Lewis, C. S. on humankind
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"Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system."

Covey, Stephen R. on time
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"Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it."

Swindoll, Charles on attitude
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"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."

Franklin, Benjamin on age and aging
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"An old young man, will be a young old man."

Franklin, Benjamin on age and aging
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"I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people."

Franklin, Benjamin on enemies
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"Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well."

Hubbard, Elbert on spirituality
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"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."

Bachelard, Gaston on home
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"Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband."

Bierce, Ambrose on beauty
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"Never forget that you are married to a very beautiful woman."

Lipsey, Michael on beauty   

"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on love
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"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination."

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"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"Love of country is like love of woman -- he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good."

Adler, Felix on patriotism   

"Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding."

Spencer, Herbert on love
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"The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love."

Magdenburg, Mechthild of on soul
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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on love
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"Faults are beauties in a lovers eye."

Theocritus on faults
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"I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?"

Thurber, James on women   

"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on love
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"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back."

Rubinstein, Arthur on love
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"All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here"

A.R. Rahman on love
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"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

Fitzgerald, Ella on failure
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"I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true."

Pirandello, Luigi on writers and writing
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"We that are true lovers run into strange capers."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise."

Santayana, George on love
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