Quotes 5021 till 5040 of 5903.
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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
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To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law [in the 14th century] prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below a fixed price, working late by artificial light, employing extra apprentices or wife and underage children, and advertising of wares or praising them to the detriment of others.
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To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
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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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