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704 Diplomat Quotes

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Experience Thorn Warning Whole
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The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
Aches Forgets Heart Sorrow
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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

Cruelty Desperately Longer Monotonous
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Fate loves the fearless.
Fate Fear Fearless Loves
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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Circumstances Example Impulse Life
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As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

Change End Every Faces
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Aim Begin Crime Failure
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
Book Criticized Old Security
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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Blown Candle Easily Finds
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Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Come Conflict Decide Every
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Desires Educate Expand Horizon
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

Brave Fortune Rod Staff
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Color Conviction Experience Faith
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
Common Does Genius Grows
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Day Done Every Get
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Light is the symbol of truth.
Light Of Symbol Truth
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

Character Conscientious Duty Energetic
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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

Against Always Been Democracy
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The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

Him Make Man Plan
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Deeper Easier Get Ocean
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Appeal Been Fail Known
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Blessed Cannot Nothing Persuaded
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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Forever Scaffold Throne Truth
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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

After Agreed Different Everybody
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Folks Hate Never Understand
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

Bends Breaks Kinds Two
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Defect Only Outgrow Soon
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On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

Agree Both Distrust Issue
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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Anew Born Day Each
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Freedom Genius Knows Law
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The eye is the notebook of the poet.

Eye Of Notebook Poet
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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

Great Great Man Made Make
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Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Crowning Endurance Great Hearts
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

Dealing Great Great Things Himself
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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Democracy Every Every Man Form
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When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.

The world Draped Mantle Night
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Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.

Freedom Educated people Slave English
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Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.
Morality Matter Money Poor people
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The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned

Last Learn Gossip Parties concerned
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The doer must do only when the receiver is ready to receive. Otherwise, the act is wasted.

The doer When Receiver Is ready
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Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

Your principle See everything Say nothing World changes
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Once through this ruined city did I pass I espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked ‘What knowest thou of this wilderness?’ It replied: 'I can sum it up in two words: ‘Alas, Alas!

One through Ruined city Lonely bird
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Consciousness of the bad is an essential prerequisite to the promotion of the good.

Consciousness Bad An essentials Prerequisite
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But big people’s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end

Big people Illness Sound big Simple shutting
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When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.

Have counted Eighty years Time Fate
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We also knew that it was in the nature of an empty stomach to produce illusions of grandeur.

Nature Empty stomach Produce illusions Grandeur
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So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind When just the art of being kind is all that the sad world needs.

So many Gods Creeds Many paths
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Little mother of ancient days: Thou hast cunningly dyed thy hair but consider That thy bent back will never be straight!

Little mother Ancient days Hair Consider
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Men have many faults, women only two: Everything they say, and everything they do.

Men Have Many faults Women
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In the absence of men all women are chaste.

Absence Men Women Are chaste
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