"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child."

Cicero, Marcus T. on children
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"Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator."

Cicero, Marcus T. on brevity   

"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak."

Cicero, Marcus T. on speakers and speaking
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"A good orator is pointed and impassioned."

Cicero, Marcus T. on speakers and speaking   

"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."

Cicero, Marcus T. on silence
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"Before beginning, plan carefully."

Cicero, Marcus T. on planning
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"He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason."

Cicero, Marcus T. on passion   

"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."

Cicero, Marcus T. on argument   

"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."

Cicero, Marcus T. on learning
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"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own."

Cicero, Marcus T. on fools and foolishness
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"Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy."

Churchill, Jennie Jerome on life
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"Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions."

Christie, Agatha on crime and criminals   

"There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away."

Christie, Agatha on conversation
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"I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on committees and meetings   

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on christians and christianity
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"How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on thoughts and thinking
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"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on problems
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"If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on pride
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"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on humankind
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"I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance."

Casals, Pablo on passion
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"The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do."

Casals, Pablo on purpose
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"Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?"

Carson, Johnny on opportunity
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"The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you."

Carlyle, Thomas on purpose
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"The purpose of man is in action not thought."

Carlyle, Thomas on purpose
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"There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems."

Carlyle, Thomas on proverbs
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"Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is."

Carlyle, Thomas on association   

"Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy."

Carlyle, Thomas on persuasion
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"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."

Carlyle, Thomas on perseverance
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"The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was."

Carlyle, Thomas on mediocrity   

"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves."

Carlyle, Thomas on anger
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"The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss."

Carlyle, Thomas on life   

"The true university of these days is a collection of books."

Carlyle, Thomas on libraries
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"The history of the world is but the biography of great men."

Carlyle, Thomas on history and historians
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"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder."

Carlyle, Thomas on goals   

"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus."

Carlyle, Thomas on focus
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"The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

Carlyle, Thomas on faults
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"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."

Carlyle, Thomas on egotism   

"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong."

Carlyle, Thomas on decisions
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"Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason."

Camus, Albert on music
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"That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great."

Cather, Willa on happiness
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