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Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
Creation
Thomas Fuller

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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Ability
Edward Gibbon

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
Truth
J. C. Hare

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Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.
Inertia
William Hazlitt

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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Simplicity
Ernest Hemingway

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The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.
Charity
Henry Home

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
Excellence
Lyndon B. Johnson

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The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Samuel Johnson

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The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.
Nations
Stanley Kubrick

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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
Men and Women
D. H. Lawrence

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He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
Communication
Abraham Lincoln

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We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
Vow
Abraham Lincoln

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
Perseverance
John Lyly

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.
Happiness
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
Home
Robert Montgomery

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Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
Life and Living
Blaise Pascal

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The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
Ambition
William Penn

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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
Evil
Phaedrus

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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Honesty
Alexander Pope

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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
Credit
Alexander Pope

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The noblest vengeance is to forgive.
Vengeance
Proverb

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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.
Enjoyment
Francis Quarles

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The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.
Studying
Sir William Ramsay

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
Action
John Roger

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The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.
self-esteem
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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