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Chinese Proverb
The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.
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Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.
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Virginia Woolf
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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Danish proverb
He who would leap high must take a long run.
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Henry Steele Commager
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
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Oprah Winfrey
Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
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There\'s Something About Mary
Warren Franks and Beans Franks and Beans
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Rmy de Gourmont
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
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Cicero
As the old proverb says Like readily consorts with like.
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Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.
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John Howard Payne
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
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G. K. Chesterton, "Heretics", 1905
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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