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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Ambition
Sir Walter Scott

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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Difficulties
Seneca

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It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
Audiences
Seneca

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A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
Friends and Friendship
William Shakespeare

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A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
Peace
William Shakespeare

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It is difficulties that give birth to miracles.
Miracles
Dr. Sharpe

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
Desire
George Bernard Shaw

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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
Crime and Criminals
George Bernard Shaw

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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
Retirement
Gail Sheehy

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A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Critics and Criticism
William Shenstone

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Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
Tears
William Gilmore Simms

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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
Possibilities
Susan Sontag

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Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Worry
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
Difficulties
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Responsibility
Tom Stoppard

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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Punishment
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.
Possibilities
Shunryu Suzuki

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Leaders and Leadership
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.
Kindness
The Talmud

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Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.
Faults
Theocritus

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
Thoughts and Thinking
Henry David Thoreau

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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Civilization
Mark Twain

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In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
Politicians and Politics
Mark Twain

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To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
Pity
Miguel De Unamuno

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Difficulties are stepping stones to success.
Difficulties
Source Unknown

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