“Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.”
— Jonathan Swift
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I am more afraid of my own
“I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.”
— Martin Luther
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The good physician treats the disease; the
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”
— William Osler
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Pop changes week to week, month to
“Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.”
— Ravi Shankar
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An unexamined faith is not worth having,
“An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.”
— Jon Meacham
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Where there is great love, there are
“Where there is great love, there are always wishes.”
— Willa Cather
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Action is greater than writing. A good
“Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.”
— Ross Perot
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I never weary of great churches. It
“I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is a woman at the begining
“There is a woman at the begining of all great things.”
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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Behind every great fortune lies a great
“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”
— Honore de Balzac
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The way of the Creative works through
“The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.”
— Alexander Pope
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