Quotes 4501 till 4520 of 6209.
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The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or horror beyond powers of description, if one is equal to them.
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The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
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The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.
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The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
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The greatest men have not always the best heads; many indiscretions may be pardoned to a brilliant and ardent imagination. The prudence and discretion of a cold heart are not worth half so much as the follies of an ardent mind.
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The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
Source: Liefdesmedicijn (2010) 66 -
The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, ''Let no one be called happy till his death;'' to which I would add, ''Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.''
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The habit I've developed is to write in any free half hour I might find.
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The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
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The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.
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