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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Jane Harrison To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Dean William R. Inge To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Henry Drummond To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
    Henry Drummond
    Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer (1786 - 1860)
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  • James Allen To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Emily Post To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
    Emily Post
    American writer about etiquette (1872 - 1960)
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  • Heraclitus To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • George Santayana To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but not hurried.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Paul Klee To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • E. M. Cioran To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Barbara Walters To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Adam Smith To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Earl Nightingale To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Abraham Lincoln To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Eliot To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley To live in the present only is as unnatural as to live in solitude.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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