Quotes 21 till 40 of 47.
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No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. ''
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People see God every day; they just don't recognize Him.
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same - and most mothers kiss and scold together.
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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
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There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.
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There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
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There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you - if you don't repeat it.
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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
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