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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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"Skepticism", is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, "Well, what have we here?"
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A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you re
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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
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A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.
Quest For Lost Heroes (2011) 43 -
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Art, the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
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Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
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Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
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