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A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
[ Wages ]
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
[ Crafts ]
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
[ Argument ]
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
[ Goals ]
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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
[ Reason ]
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
[ Focus ]
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
[ Biography ]
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All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
[ Evil ]
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All great peoples are conservative.
[ Conservatives ]
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Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.
[ Payment ]
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
[ Cleverness ]
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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
[ Belief ]
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
[ Potential ]
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Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
[ Uncategorised ]
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
[ Duty ]
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
[ Doubt ]
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
[ Egotism ]
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
[ Opinions ]
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
[ Work ]
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
[ Action ]
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For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
[ Suffering ]
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
[ Genius ]
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
[ Wisdom ]
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He that can work is born to be king of something.
[ Kings ]
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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
[ Heroes and Heroism ]
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History is the distillation of rumor.
[ History and Historians ]
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
[ Biography ]
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
[ Ignorance ]
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I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am.
[ Universe ]
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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
[ Vision ]
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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
[ Speakers and Speaking ]
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If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.
[ Fashion ]
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
[ Enemies ]
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.
[ Time and Time Management ]
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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
[ Success ]
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
[ Music ]
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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
[ Imagination ]
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
[ Beginning ]
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
[ Loneliness ]
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
[ Behavior ]
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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man
[ Laughter ]
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Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
[ Excellence ]
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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.
[ Life and Living ]
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
[ Love ]
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
[ Honesty ]
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
[ Tools ]
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Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
[ Humankind ]
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
[ Action ]
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