"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."

Evenus on action
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"There is no sanctuary of virtue like home."

Everett, Edward on home
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"If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree."

Proverb, English on happiness
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"Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it."

Dali, Salvador on perfection
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"The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret."

Dali, Salvador on influence
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"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well."

Thatcher, Margaret on intentions
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"One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex."

Thatcher, Margaret on men
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"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country."

Thatcher, Margaret on home   

"I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night."

Corelli, Marie on marriage
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"It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home."

Wilder, Thornton on conflict
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"Every burden is a blessing."

Schuller, Robert H. on adversity   

"Like a gardener I believe what goes down must come up."

Giacomini, Lynwood L. on farming and farmers
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"The tongue can paint what the eye can't see."

Proverb, Chinese on persuasion
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"It is later than you think."

Proverb, Chinese on time   

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"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

Proverb, Chinese on anger
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"Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden."

Proverb, Chinese on pleasure
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"One often has need of one, inferior to himself."

La Fontaine, Jean De on inferiority   

"Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on sympathy
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"To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar."

Wilde, Oscar on cooking   

"The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts."

Wilde, Oscar on tyranny
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"Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected."

Wilde, Oscar on art   

"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."

Wilde, Oscar on blame
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"No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does."

Brookner, Anita on confession
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"A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect."

Jonson, Ben on suspicion   

"I shed a tear today. Silenty, I felt it fall. You caught it, shared it, held it, felt it, then suddenly it wasn't so big after all."

Tindall, Marge on tears
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"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

Wooden, John on ability
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"Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living."

Forbes, B. C. on business
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"Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious."

Forbes, B. C. on suspicion
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"Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert."

Forbes, B. C. on work
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"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is."

Bloom, Allan on books - reading
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"The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities..."

Forbes, B. C. on leadership   

"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?"

Wilde, Oscar on smoking
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"Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity."

Wilde, Oscar on thoughts and thinking
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"When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized."

Stakman, E. G. on behavior   

"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."

La Fontaine, Jean De on friends and friendship
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"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person."

Mead, Margaret on marriage   

"Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, Go to sleep by yourselves. And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help."

Mead, Margaret on independence   

"I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it -- yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by."

Welles, Orson on cinema   

"Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited."

Mead, Margaret on behavior