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Samuel Smiles
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.
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William Arthur Ward
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
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Friedrich von Hardenberg Novalis
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924
Pathos, piety, courage, — they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
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John Milton
... If weakness may excuse, What Murderer, what Traitor, Parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it All Wickedness is Weakness That plea therefore With God or Man will gain thee no Remission.
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Stacia Tauscher
We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
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W. H. Auden
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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Robert M. Hamilton
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
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Jules Renard
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
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Otto von Bismarck
A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.
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Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
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John Blofeld
If being wealthy is taken to mean having the means to satisfy one's every want, all but the very poor can become rich as thou at a single stroke of a magician's wand, simply by ceasing to want more than is really necessary for sustaining life. By being content with little and not giving a rap for what the neighbours think, one can attain a very large measure of freedom, shedding care and worry in a trice.
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