Quotes 5001 till 5020 of 10005.
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Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.
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Necessity makes a honest man a knave.
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Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
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Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.
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Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
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Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's ''yes,'' all's well. That is enough.
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.
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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
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Never disregard what your enemies say. They may be severe, they may be prejudiced, they may be determined to see only in one direction, but still in that direction see clearly. They do not speak all the truth, but they generally speak the truth from one point of view; so far as that goes, attend to them.
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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
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