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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 85
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Sterne
How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!
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J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise.
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Antoine De Saint-Exupery
He who would travel happily must travel light.
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Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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John F. Kennedy
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
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Juvenal
Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
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Cicero
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.
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Anais Nin
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
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Herman Melville
From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
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Arthur Schnabel
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides
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Elizabeth Bowen
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
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