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It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
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It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.
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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.
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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
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It takes two to speak the truth, one to speak, and another to hear.
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It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
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It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.
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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
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It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
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I’ve learned to accept birth and death . . . but sometimes I still worry about what lies between.
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Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.
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Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.
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Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
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Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
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