Quotes 601 till 620 of 25274.
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Good name in men and women, dear my lord, is the immediate jewel of their soul.
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
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Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
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Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.
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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
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Happiness, satisfaction, and success in life depend on making the right choices, the winning choices. There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
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He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.
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He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
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He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
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