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Aphra Behn
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
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Rebecca West
The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
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H Hahn Blavatsky
Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal. The giant weed (of evil) cannot flower there this blot upon existence is wiped out by the very atmosphere of eternal thought.
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Robert J. Kibbee
Over the years, we have come to identify quality in a college not by whom it serves but by how many students it excludes. Let us not be a sacred priesthood protecting the temple, but rather the fulfillers of dreams.
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Joseph Addison
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Joseph Rickaby
A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.
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William Cowper
O Winter ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.
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Ferdinand Foch
The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. (To Canadian Parliament)
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George Burns
I get a standing ovation jaust standing.
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Werner Karl Heisenberg
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
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Aristotle
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
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