Quotes 5041 till 5060 of 5921.
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To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
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To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.
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To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
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To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.
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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
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To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
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To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
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To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
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To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
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To have twenty lovers in one year is easy. To have one lover for twenty years is difficult.
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To inspire a singularity of focus, a challenge must be important to you and it must be something you feel you should do now in this moment. If it's trivial or not time-bound, you won't engage. So in selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.
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To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.
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