Thoughts Text – Set 7 – 2017

#1

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

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#2

The wise man read both Books and Life itself.

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#3

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

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#4

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

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#5

There is nothing better than contagious laughter.

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#6

There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

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#7

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else’s draft.

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#8

There is no grievance that is a fit object of readress by mob law

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#9

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men’s souls.

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#10

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

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#11

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

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#12

There can be no high civilisation where there is not ample leisure.

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#13

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

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#14

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.

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#15

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

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#16

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

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#17

Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

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#18

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

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#19

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

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#20

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

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#21

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

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#22

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

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#23

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

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#24

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

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#25

There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education; what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture.

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#26

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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#27

To teach isto learn twice.

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#28

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

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#29

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

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#30

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

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#31

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.

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#32

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

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#33

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

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#34

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

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#35

To err is human; to realy mess things up requires a computer.

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#36

To err is human; to blame it on the other party is politics

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#37

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

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#38

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it.The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

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#39

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

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#40

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can’t take it with you . he’ll try to take it with him.

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#41

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

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#42

Better hazard than always be in fear.

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#43

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

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#44

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

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#45

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

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#46

As long as there is life there is danger.

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#47

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

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#48

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

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#49

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

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#50

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.