"Luck is the idol of the idle."

Proverb on luck
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"Civility costs nothing."

Proverb on manners   

"Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony."

Proverb on manners   

"Choose your wife as you wish your children to be."

Proverb on marriage
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"Ownership is to fear."

Proverb on ownership   

"I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic."

Alther, Lisa on contradiction
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"Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]"

Bible on perseverance
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"Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard."

Cossman, E. Joseph on perseverance
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"Love is a friendship set to music."

Cossman, E. Joseph on love
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"The greatest power is often simple patience."

Cossman, E. Joseph on power
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"Square meals often make round people."

Cossman, E. Joseph on food and eating
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"I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on food and eating   

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"I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."

Aretino, Pietro on friends and friendship
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"If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them."

Aretino, Pietro on neighbors   

"A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on neighbors   

"Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there."

Jones, Franklin P. on neighbors
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"Never find fault with the absent."

Proverb on absence
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"A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits."

Nixon, Richard M. on perseverance
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"The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it."

Foley, Will on trials
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"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."

Duchamp, Marcel on contradiction
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"Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on contradiction
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"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on contradiction   

"People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on contradiction
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"Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do."

Moore, George on contradiction   

"The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."

Wilde, Oscar on contradiction
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"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes)."

Whitman, Walt on contradiction
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"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."

Orwell, George on contradiction
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"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office."

Frost, Robert on work
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"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."

Keats, John on depression
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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."

Wilde, Oscar on desperation
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"Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love."

Proverb on absence
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"Good advice is beyond all price."

Proverb on advice
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"Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing."

Proverb on enemies
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"What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire."

Proverb on eyes
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"The face is the index of the mind."

Proverb on faces   

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"When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick."

Proverb on failure
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"Weave in faith and God will find the thread."

Proverb on faith
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"No one is worse, for knowing the worst of themselves."

Proverb on faults
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