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Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
[ Perception ]
A Course In Miracles
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Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
[ Reason ]
Nicola Abbagnano
Nicola Abbagnano books
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Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.
[ Prejudice ]
Duchess Abrantes
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A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
[ Management ]
Dean Acheson
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Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
[ Empire ]
Dean Acheson
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
[ Love ]
Diane Ackerman
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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
[ Faith ]
Saint Thomas Acquinas
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
[ Power ]
Lord Acton
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Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
[ Learning ]
Abigail Adams
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
[ Words ]
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams books
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Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
[ Books - Reading ]
Dawn Adams
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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
[ Airplane and Aviation ]
Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams books
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Morality is a private and costly luxury.
[ Morality ]
Henry Brooks Adams
Henry Brooks Adams books
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The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
[ Worry ]
James Truslow Adams
James Truslow Adams books
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A government of laws and not of men.
[ Uncategorised ]
John Adams
John Adams books
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
[ Revolutions and Revolutionaries ]
John Adams
John Adams books
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I read my eyes out and cant read half enough. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
[ Uncategorised ]
John Adams
John Adams books
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86 votes
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
[ Power ]
John Adams
John Adams books
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87 votes
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
[ Education ]
John Adams
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My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
[ Support ]
Richard Adams
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There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
Scott Adams
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Energy is equal to desire and purpose.
[ Energy ]
Sheryl Adams
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'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
[ Merit ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
[ Honor ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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85 votes
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
[ Cheerfulness ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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76 votes
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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77 votes
Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
[ Lies and Lying ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
[ Despair ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
[ Music ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
[ Inconsistency ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
[ Editing and Editors ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
[ Virtue ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
[ Seriousness ]
Joseph Addison
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
[ Injury ]
Joseph Addison
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Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
[ Insults ]
Joseph Addison
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A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
[ Family ]
George Ade
George Ade books
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Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.
[ Service ]
George Ade
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Man know much more than he understands.
[ Understanding ]
Alfred Adler
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Man knows more than he understands.
[ Knowledge ]
Alfred Adler
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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
[ Will and Will Power ]
Aeschylus
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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.
[ Will and Will Power ]
Aeschylus
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Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
[ Originality ]
Aesop
Aesop books
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Please all, and you will please none.
[ Approval ]
Aesop
Aesop books
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Slow and steady wins the race.
[ Patience ]
Aesop
Aesop books
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The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales.
[ Pain ]
Aesop
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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.
[ Mind ]
Aesop
Aesop books
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Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.
[ Epitaphs ]
James Agate
James Agate books
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The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.
[ Nationalities and Nationalism ]
James Agate
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Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.
[ Worry ]
Leo Aikman
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Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
Leo Aikman
Leo Aikman books
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