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Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.
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To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery.
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Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.
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Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing.
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On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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Never value the valueless. The trick is to know how to recognize it.
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Everyone values things differently. In other words, they place their own value on everything that affects their lives. Also from moment to moment they may even change their values. Such as a person, who values diamonds above all else, might be willing to
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It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
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We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.
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The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
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You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.
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Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.
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The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely-- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
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Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that prep
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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
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We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
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Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.
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I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
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According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and
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The only atheism is the denial of truth.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.
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The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
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As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
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We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.
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One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
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Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.
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I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
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The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things.
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A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation.
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One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.
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He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.
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A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
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Open your mouth and purse cautiously; and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
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There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.
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To save time is to lengthen life.
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Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.
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Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.
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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
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When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.
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Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.
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Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
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