Quotes 261 till 280 of 10185.
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
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Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see - but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
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Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it
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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
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Hate is a kind of 'passive suffering', but indignation is a kind of joy.
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