Quotes 1 till 20 of 1663.
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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
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The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
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Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
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Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
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I am eagerly awaiting my next disappointment.
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If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.
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Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
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The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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