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As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. - Epidemics.
Author: Hippocrates
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Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.
Author: Jeremy Schwartz
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Mahfouz.
Author: Naguib
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A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
Author: Fats Domino
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. . -Lin Yutang.
Author: Lin Yutang
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A child's hand in yours - what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of power and wisdom. Merry Browne -Marjorie Holmes.
Author: Marjorie Holmes
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Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
Author: William Wordsworth
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Author: William James
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Author: Felix Frankfurter
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Author: Seneca
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Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Author: Proverb
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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Kahlil Gibran.
Author: Ana Lee
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Author: Leo Aikman
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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.
Author: Elias A. Ford
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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
Author: Arnold H. Glasgow
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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
Author: Dustin Hoffman
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The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
Author: Phillips Brooks
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To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Author: John Churton Collins
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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
Author: L. Estrange
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There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
Author: Henry Fielding
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Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.".
Author: Tallulah Bankhead
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Author: Cleveland Amory
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Author: Alphonse De Lamartine
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Imagine being able to sit at your desk and with a few keystrokes on your computer-being able to access almost any information you need from a storehouse of the world's published knowledge.
Author: Dialog Brochure
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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.
Author: William Morris Hunt
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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.
Author: Frederic William Maitland
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Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
Author: L. Carte
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Author: Bob Edwards
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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
Author: John Dewey
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When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.
Author: Dom H. Camara
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The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.
Author: Mark Messier
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It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
Author: Georges Bernanos
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Promise is most given when the least is said.
Author: George Chapman
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When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.
Author: George O'neil
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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
Author: Nicholas Boileau
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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.
Author: George Earle Buckle
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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.
Author: Sir Walter Besant
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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.
Author: Eddie Cantor
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It's the men behind who "make" the man ahead.
Author: Merle Crowell
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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.
Author: Keith Degreen
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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
Author: Fredrich
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Author: Sidney J. Harris
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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.
Author: Frank Birch
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When someone falls, don't laugh at them. Help them up. They will pay you back some day.
Author: Brooklyn Marie
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Author: Oliver Wendell-holmes
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It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Author: Charles Haddon-spurgeon
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Never practice two vices at once.
Author: Mike Binder
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