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Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
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Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
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Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Our greatest glory consists not in never failing but in rising every time we fall.
Source: The Citizen of the World (1762) - door Lien Chi Altangi (Oliver Goldsmith) -
Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.
― Robert H. Schuller
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.
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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
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