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Good but rarely come from good advice.
When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
One gives nothings so freely as advice.
People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
Anger
Nobody can make you angry without your consent.
Beauty
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
A good beginning makes a good ending.
A thing begun is half done.
A journey of thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Don't start something which you cannot s.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
He who seizes the right moment is the right man.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
The first blow is half the battle.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
Books and friends should be few and good.
You cannot change others as easily as you can change yourself.
The living need charity more than the dead.
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of aggression or abrasion.
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Kites rise against, not with the wind.
If you want to be a success, display enough courage to welcome failures.
One man with courage can make a majority.
Its in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
Don't lie if you don't have to.
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
Best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
They know enough who know how to learn.
Knowledge is power.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
Education is the ability to meet life's situations
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Love your enemies.
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by friends.
He makes no friend who never made a foe.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Energy is eternal delight.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ships are safer in the harbour, but they are not meant for that purpose.
A ship that stays at the harbour never encounters any danger but it also never gets anywhere.
If you do not make mistakes, it only means you are not trying.
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Making excuses does not hurt anybody but yourself.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
No rose without a thorn.
Failure means delay, not defeat.
Learn from failures; do not brood over them.
You can do very little with faith; you can do nothing without it.
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
A good exterior is a silent recommendation.
The apparel often proclaims the man.
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
Fear is just excitement in need of an attitude adjustment.
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Love truth, but pardon error.
A fault confessed is half redressed.
Admitting you are wrong is a modest way of showing you have grown a little wiser.
Forgive many things in others but nothing in yourself.
One friend in a life is much, two are many, three are hardly possible.
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
Rare is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
A true friend thinks of you when all others are thinking of themselves.
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
A friend is a person who knows all about you - and still likes you.
Friendship is not a matter of being present with someone. It is a matter of being present to someone.
Most people walk in and out of your life, but only friends leave footprints in your heart.
Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.
A friend is easier lost that found.
He who has good friends has no need for a mirror.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
No man is useless while he has a friend.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
It is chance that makes brothers but hearts that make friends.
Make new friends, but keep the old; these are silver, those are gold.
The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days.
You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can lose one in an hour.
It is not as difficult to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flames.
A genius is a man who has two great ideas.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Everybody is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
An honest man's word is as good has his bond.
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
An honest man is the noblest work of god.
Jealousy is nothing but the foolish child of pride.
Love is as strong as death; jealousy is as cruel as the grave.
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.
Every job has its problems. A key consideration in choosing a career is determining, what type of problems you enjoy solving.
He laughs best who laughs last.
Laughter has no greater enemy than emotion.
Nothing is sillier than silly laughter.
Laziness is often mistaken for patience.
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Lazy people are always looking for something to do.
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
A useless life is an early death.
S existing. Start living.
The greatest loss is the loss of self-confidence.
The heart that loves is always young.
It is impossible to love and be wise.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
In her first passion a woman loves her lover, in all the others, all she loves is love.
Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.
The biggest obstacle to love is the secret fear of not being worthy of being loved.
The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else.
One should always be in Love that is the reason one should never marry.
Throw a lucky man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
Luck never made a man wise.
Fortune favors the brave.
It is better to be fortunate than wise.
A lucky man is rarer than a white cow.
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Take the tone if the company you are in.
Tact consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
Everyman has his faults. It all depends on whether he has enough good qualities to counter balance them.
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
To marry is to halve you rights and double your duties.
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Therefore....
Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves. After marriage, the 'Y' becomes silent.
Reason is the ruler and queen of all things.
I think and therefore I am.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Minds are like parachutes; they only function when open.
An open mind collects more riches than an open purse.
He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes.
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.
All men make mistakes; only fools repeat them.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Money disappears like magic.
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
He is almost always a slave who cannot live on little.
All wealth is the product of labor.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Obedience is the mother of success, and the wife of security.
Obedience is a hard profession.
It is much safer to obey than to rule.
Learn to obey before you command.
A pessimist is a person who complains of noise when opportunity knocks the door.
An optimist sees an opportunity in each calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Sun's rays cannot be hidden unless you close your eyes.
An optimist is a man who sees a light that is not there and a pessimist is a fool who tries to blow it out.
Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Patience and delay achieve more than force and rage.
He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Power is precarious.
In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.
One who fails to plan has planned to fail.
Problems are only solutions in disguise.
Most problems are really the absence of ideas.
Delays have dangerous ends.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.
If you want to get along, go along.
The better part of valor is discretion.
Reading without thinking is like eating without digesting.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
If you wish another to keep you secret, first keep it yourself.
The gods help them that help themselves.
Help yourself and heaven will help you.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
A smile is better than the most expensive perfume.
Smile is a curve that sets many things straight.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
I ruined time and now time is ruining me.
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.
Truth is rarely pure and never simple.
It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
Wisdom comes only through suffering.
Wonder it the beginning of wisdom.
The function of wisdom is discriminating between good and evil.
A wise man speaks when others have exhausted their worlds.
A wise man thinks before acting and the fool thinks after it.
A half hearted effort does not produce half the result, but it produces no result.
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's. She changes it more often.
The most beautiful makeup for a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
It is not what we get from work that is important but what we become from it.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought of you if you knew how seldom they did.
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