Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.
Rebecca West
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Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.
Rebecca West
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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Jean Paul Richter
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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Joseph Roux
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High expectations are the key to everything.
Sam Walton
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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
James Truslow Adams
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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandara Carey
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There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Dorothy Parker
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Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Jim Rohn
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The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Lucille S. Harper
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Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
John Berryman
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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.
Henry Van Dyke
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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
James Carswell
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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.
Al Kersha
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One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.
Source Unknown
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A ****, (male chicken) has great influence on his own dunghill.
Publilius Syrus
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We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
Edmund Burke
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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun
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Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
James Baldwin
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Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
James Carswell
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
Marlene Dietrich
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Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.
Friedrich Von Schlegel
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There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
Sophocles
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Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.
Olive Schreiner
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