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776 quotesAs long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
Obstacles
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.
Talent
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If a man owns land, the land owns him.
Property
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.
Thoughts and Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
Wisdom
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine
Adversity
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Integrity
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
Self-reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.
Choice
Jon English
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Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
Neighbors
English Proverb
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When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away.
Rebellion
English Proverb
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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.
Friends and Friendship
English Proverb
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It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.
Choice
Epictetus
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There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
Enemies
Euripides
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He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole.
Excellence
Eustachius
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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.
Wisdom
Bergen Evans
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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
Crime and Criminals
George Farquhar
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Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
Complaints and Complaining
Francois FeNelon
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
Life and Living
W. C. Fields
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Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Education
Martin H. Fischer
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
History and Historians
Gustave Flaubert
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For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
Knowledge
James Elroy Flecker
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Victory
Malcolm S. Forbes
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Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
Deeds and Good Deeds
Henry Ford
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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
Marriage
Richard Ford
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun