"Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on virtue   

"Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing."

Pope, Alexander on generosity
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"The Lord doesn't ask about your ability, only your availability; and, if you prove your dependability, the Lord will increase your capability."

Unknown, Source on integrity
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"Your body is an amazing creation, capable of performing great wonders, but you can destroy that miraculous machine's potential with an overdose of stress."

Johnson, Harry J. on possibilities   

"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."

Weil, Simone on happiness   

"If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties."

Bacon, Francis on certainty
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"The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness."

Hoffer, Eric on age and aging
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"Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end."

Talmud, The on sin
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"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood."

Shenstone, William on lies and lying
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"What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning."

Proverb, Spanish on fools and foolishness   

"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."

Wilde, Oscar on friends and friendship
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"Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin."

Hansen, Grace on fear   

"Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own."

Thompson, Francis on pain
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"The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning."

Eliot, T. S. on youth
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"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life."

Fellini, Frederico on passion
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"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."

Shaw, George Bernard on art
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"I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first."

Franklin, Benjamin on life
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"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

Lee, Harper on courage
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"'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it."

Cervantes, Miguel De on love
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"The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life."

Eliot, George on science   

"Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends."

Cruise, Tom on ending
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"About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends."

Hoover, Herbert Clark on opportunity   

"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."

Harris, Sidney J. on computers
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"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."

Confucius on wickedness
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"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."

Rubin, Theodore I. on kindness   

"Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense."

Brodie, Fawn M. on biography   

"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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"A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle."

Fleming, Ian on horses   

"Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view."

Kempis, Thomas on goals
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"Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain."

Johnson, Samuel on pain
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"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

Seneca on death
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"The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."

Jung, Carl on torture
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"No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!"

Byron, Lord on science   

"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on control
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"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on free will
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"There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him."

Eco, Umberto on torture
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"To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them."

Bataille, Georges on god
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"To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!"

Diderot, Denis on asceticism
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"How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?"

Wilde, Oscar on art
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