There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
Subject:
Government
Honesty
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Author:
Aesop
Subject:
Kindness
Work: The Lion and the Mouse
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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Author:
Winston Churchill
Subject:
War
British Prime Minister Quotes
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Author:
Robert Frost
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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
Author:
William Blake
Subject:
Ambition
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Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.
Author:
Robert Frost
Subject:
Love & Romance
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Author:
Horace
Subject:
Wisdom
Wealth
Poverty
Work: Odes
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Subject:
Wisdom
Deception
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I'm going to be turning 40 this year and celebrating my 20th year in the music business.
Author:
Wynonna Judd
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Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Life
Endings
Age
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Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
Subject:
Beauty
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The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.
Author:
Albert Einstein
Subject:
Action
Judgment
Morality
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One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
Author:
Eleanor Roosevelt
Subject:
Life
American First Lady Quotes
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I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Author:
Martin Luther King Jr.
Subject:
Power
Good
Morality
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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Author:
Robert Frost
Subject:
Humor
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
Subject:
Love & Romance
Happiness
Work: Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Sincerity
Honor
Corrupt
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Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Author:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Subject:
Life
Excellence
Acting
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Author:
Plato
Subject:
Music
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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
Subject:
Kindness
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