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Confucius, The Confucian Analects
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
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Robert Smith Surtees
'Humph' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over a poodle in the drawing-room, and squirted a bottle of porter right into a lady's face. 'Who's goin' besides ourselves' asked Romford, wishing to know the worst at once. 'Better be killed than frightened to death,' thought he.
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Sidney Madwed
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
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William Shakespeare
It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.
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C. C. Colton
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Richard Buckminster Fuller
Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
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Stanislaw Lec
He who limps still walks.
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Victor Hugo
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
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James A. Froude
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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Marcel Proust
It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.
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Unknown
Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
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Solon
Reprove thy friend privately commend him publicly.
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