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Edmund Burke
It becomes extremely hard to disentangle our idea of the cause from the effect by which we know it
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Winston Churchill
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us
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Dante Alighieri
From little spark may burst a mighty flame
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Plato
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men
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Miguel Cervantes
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves
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Friedrich Schiller
He who considers too much will perform little
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Ovid
The cause lies hidden; the effect is most notorious
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Samuel Johnson
Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man
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Samuel Johnson
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything
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Samuel Johnson
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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