If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Subject:
Friendship   
Life   
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Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
Author:
Pierre de Coubertin
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You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
Author:
Ziggy
Subject:
Appearance & Attitudes   
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If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
Subject:
Wisdom   
Intellect   
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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
Subject:
Money   
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Author:
Anatole France
Subject:
Ambition   
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow br
Author:
Thomas Paine
Subject:
Adversity   
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Wisdom   
Learning   
American Presidential Quotes   
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Well done is better than well said.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
Subject:
Advice   
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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
Author:
H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
Subject:
Men   
Women   
Hate   
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There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Author:
Plato
Subject:
Politicians   
Power   
Nation   
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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
Author:
Voltaire
Subject:
Community   
God   
Morality   
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Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Author:
Plato
Subject:
Freedom   
Democracy   
Dictatorship   
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Subject:
Effort   
Writing   
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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Desires   
Mankind   
Laws   
Work: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Ambition   
Respect   
American Presidential Quotes   
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There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
Subject:
Justice   
Laws   
Judgment   
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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Author:
Christopher Morley
Subject:
Action   
Reading   
Thinking   
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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
Author:
George Bernard Shaw
Subject:
Wisdom   
Life   
Poverty   
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