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4485 Philosopher Quotes

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Genius See Seed Things
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Comfort Deemed Fit Love
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Arriving Fixed Good Intent
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Beginning Beings Creative Great
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It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Another Better Does Duty
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Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.a

Actions Agreement Beautiful Coming
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Avoid Cannot Cast Covet
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Career Disappears Either Else
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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Ant Does More Move
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All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Difficult Difficult Things Easy Great
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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Does Gives He His
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

About Affairs Beginning Careful
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Authority Because Eat Hungry
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Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
Knowledge Predict Those Who
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Silence is a source of great strength.

Great Silence Source Strength
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Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Mastering Others Power Strength
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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Cook Fish Govern Great
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Close Conflict Control Dwelling
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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Blunt Bowl Brim Fill
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To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Mind Still Universe Whole
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Always Paradoxical Truth Words
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Anything Be Yourself Goose Itself
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Ask Blessed Found He
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Altogether Bad Laughed Man
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Less Men Ought Than
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Honest Honest Man Less Make
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Became Block Granite Obstacle
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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Conscious Faults Greatest None
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Business Clearly Distance Hand
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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Attains Escapes Glad Hopes
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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Blessing Consists Felicity Fortune
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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Based He His Hope
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
Everything He Health Hope
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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Been Finest Genius Humor
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Being Confined Human Human Species
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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

Advance Affairs Could Days
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Done Flowing Good Good Man
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No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
Ability Amount Avail Honor
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
Angry Enough Important Make
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Bad Bad Times Changes Fortune
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Ambition Boredom Die Exhaustion
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Adversity Diamond Dust Heaven
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Accomplish Alone Anything Commanding
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Accomplishment Builds Like Nothing
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Accomplishment Achieve Achievement Course
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Constantly Originality Quarrel Thing
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Element Fashion Great Silence
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Believe Collective Ignorance Individual
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Against Anything Deliberately Deserve
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Books Done Lying Magic
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