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  • William Shakespeare Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Andre Breton Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Bigot, one who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • George Macdonald But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Agnes Smedley But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • John Gay But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • William Shakespeare But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death ... and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Blake Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • William Shakespeare Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Marva Collins Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
    Marva Collins
    American educator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Thomas Fuller Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Christian: One who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
    Source: The Devil's Dictionary
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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