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"Give help rather than advice."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on advice
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"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

Ruskin, John on ability
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"A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman."

Somerville, Thomas on ability
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"The king is the man who can."

Carlyle, Thomas on ability
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"They are able because they think they are able."

Virgil on ability
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"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."

Whitton, Charlotte on ability
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"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."

Wonder, Stevie on ability
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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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"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability."

Ziglar, Zig on ability
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"Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love."

Proverb on absence
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"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

Thoreau, Henry David on advice
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"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."

Franklin, Benjamin on advice
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"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it."

Collins, John Churton on advice
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"Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one."

Ball, Ivern on advice
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"The worst men often give the best advice."

Bailey, Philip James on advice
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"I do not think that there are any men who are faithful to their wives."

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy on adultery
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"No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort."

Ruskin, John on ability
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"Man cannot live by incompetence alone."

Peter, Laurence J. on ability    Share

"It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious."

Hubbard, Kin on ability
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"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."

Hubbard, Elbert on ability
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"Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart."

Mcginley, Phyllis on silence
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"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."

Friedman, Milton on government
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"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness."

Marquis, Don on happiness    Share

"Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself."

Levenson, Samuel on happiness
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"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."

Hills, Burton on happiness
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"The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on wisdom    Share

"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on control
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"I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me"

Bonaparte, Napoleon on luck
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"Ability without honor is useless."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on ability
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"Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study."

Bacon, Francis on ability
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"When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar."

Faulkner, William on ability
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"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on ability
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"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

Half, Robert on ability
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"Ability is of little account without opportunity."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on ability
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"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

Holmes, John Andrew on ability
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"False friends are worse than bitter enemies."

Proverb, Scottish on enemies
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