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Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
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Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.
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Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
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Forgive those who have hurt you.
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it
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Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
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