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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
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More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
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Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
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No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
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No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.
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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
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Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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Nothing preaches better than the act.
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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
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One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.
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Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
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Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
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Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
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