"No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time."

Rowland, Helen on reputation
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"Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant."

Aldrich, Thomas B. on candor
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"If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!"

Hardy, Thomas on candor   

"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and groveling, dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!"

Byron, Lord on contradiction   

"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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"Never let the other fellow set the agenda."

Baker, James on control
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"The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency."

Crisp, Quentin on control
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"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."

Dyer, Wayne on control
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"It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something."

Gibson, Mel on control   

"Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

Jefferson, Thomas on control
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"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you."

Robbins, Anthony on control
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"In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history."

Camus, Albert on history and historians   

"Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge."

Cicero, Marcus T. on history and historians
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"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."

Hegel, Friedrich on history and historians
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"A page of history is worth a pound of logic."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on history and historians
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"History is a better guide than good intentions."

Kirkpatrick, Jeane on history and historians   

"Much history of the world has been lost. How magnificent and confusing what's left is."

Dye, James on history   

"Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way."

Ballou, Hosea on doubt
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"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."

Carlyle, Thomas on doubt
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"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom."

Colton, Charles Caleb on doubt   

"He that knows nothing doubts nothing."

Herbert, George on doubt   

"Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom."

Iles, George on doubt
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"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death."

Unamuno, Miguel De on doubt   

"Things are beautiful if you love them."

Anouilh, Jean on beauty
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"Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant."

Horton, Doug on beauty
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"Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty."

Huxley, Aldous on beauty
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"My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?"

Kotomichi on beauty   

"The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life."

Kraus, Karl on beauty   

"Beauty is the purgation of superfluities."

Michelangelo on beauty
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"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."

Poe, Edgar Allan on beauty
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"We that are true lovers run into strange capers."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives."

Bhagavad Gita on passion
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"The dew of compassion is a tear."

Byron, Lord on passion
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"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

Aesop on kindness
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"Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on kindness
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"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on kindness
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"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

Hoffer, Eric on kindness
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"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

Lao-Tzu on kindness
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"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

Mother Teresa on kindness
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