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Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
Repentance
J. C. Macaulay

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A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
Constitutions
Thomas B. Macaulay

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The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
Painters and Painting
Thomas B. Macaulay

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Character
Thomas B. Macaulay

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The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
Persuasion
Thomas B. Macaulay

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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Morality
Thomas B. Macaulay

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Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
Trials
George Macdonald

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Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
Candor
George Macdonald

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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
God
George Macdonald

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The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
Preparation
George Macdonald

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
Friends and Friendship
Aaron Machado

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Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
Spirit and Spirituality
Antonio Machado

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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
Favors
Niccolo Machiavelli

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Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
Judgment and Judges
Niccolo Machiavelli

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
Change
Niccolo Machiavelli

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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
Punctuality
Niccolo Machiavelli

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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Promises
Niccolo Machiavelli

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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
War
Niccolo Machiavelli

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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Will and Will Power
Niccolo Machiavelli

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The sale begins when the customer says yes.
Sales
Harvey Mackay

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.
Success
John W. Mackay

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The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
Husbands
Shirley Maclaine

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Fear
Shirley Maclaine

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?
Fear
Alexander Maclaren

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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.
God
Alexander Maclaren

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun