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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”

Men Stumble Truth Hurry
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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Shall Show But Mercy
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Easy Perform Action Acquire
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Well Health Wealth Wisdom
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Creats Image Regard Mode
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“The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.”

Duty Wisdom Trade Character
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Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.
Reflect Season Christmas Rejoice
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aim Art Outward Appearance
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Wise Secure Pleasure Avoid
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Beauty Soul After Feel
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“I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”

Drunk Morning Sobber Ugly
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“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

Malice Truth Attack Ignorance
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“There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.”

Certainty Expectation Principle War
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Journey Discourage Climb Progress
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Root Bitter Fruit Sweet
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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

Grip Danger Present Aware
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“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

Slaves Words Slip Masters
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To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Express Common Wise People
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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Neither Coward Rash Courage
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Wish Friend Work Fruit
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What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know.

Invest People Count Realistic
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So smile when you read a headline that says Investors lose as market falls. Edit it in your mind to Disinvestors lose as market falls but investors gain. Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other.

Buyer Seller Truism Headline
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like

Fun Long Difficult Lunch
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Keep all your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket closely.

Basket Eggs Watch Closely
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People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
People Nothing Every Day
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I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.

Lost Know Where However
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I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
Believe Forever Good True
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Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

Convention Route Group Individual
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But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.

Course Forest Always Bear
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If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But, if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

Hire Dwarf Company People
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I have learned that not diamonds but divorce lawyers are a girl's best friend.

Divorce Lawyer Friend Diamonds
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
Woman Amusing Diet Time
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But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.

Block Doth Stand Fath
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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.

Human Action Extend Nature
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

Truth Certain Moment Judge
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

Think Claim Part Other
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

Man You Random Honor
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If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

Can Die Once Over
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

Can Stand Test Power
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.

Love Him Both Fell
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My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So why should my advice be? If you want that kind of thinking, go to a computer. Computers are always logical and consistent, and you see how often they get proposed to.

Advice Logical Consistent Love
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His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

Resolve Not Seem Best
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.

Gift Perfect Nobody Stranger
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Come Wait Left Hustle
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Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

Night Conceal Think Behold
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Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

Child Health Soul Dear
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
Claim Confess Have Plain
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Oath Make Believe Man
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I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer who remarked to a companion once that ‘it was not best to swap horses while crossing streams’.

Myself Conclude Best Story
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Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.

Respect Veil Frankly Mind
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