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A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
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A transcendent being can be any miracle.
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A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.
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A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
St. John of the Cross
Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591) -
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
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Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
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According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
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Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
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Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.
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Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.
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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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