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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
Hippocrates
Astrology
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson
Counsel
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The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.
Hunter S. Thompson
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Oliver Goldsmith
Blind
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
A. R. Ammons
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That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
A. R. Ammons
Certainly
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The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Sun Tzu
Against
Defeat
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Enemy
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Balk the enemy's power; force him to reveal himself.
Sun Tzu
Enemy
Force
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Himself
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He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Ben Jonson
Fool
Himself
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Only
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Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
Daniel Webster
Associated
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Creatures
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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Thomas Merton
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When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
Charles Dickens
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If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
Thomas Aquinas
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Christ
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No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie
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Doing
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Great
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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Andrew Carnegie
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You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
Andrew Carnegie
Any
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
Changing
Changing The World
Everyone
Himself
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Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
Leo Tolstoy
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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
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Himself
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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine
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Believing
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Consists
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The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Thomas Hobbes
Each
Each Man
Hath
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Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas Hobbes
Everyone
Fear
Himself
Invisible
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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
Lord Byron
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If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.
Louise Hay
Been
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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He that does good to another does good also to himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Diogenes
Himself
Hurt
Man
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Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes
Capable
Counselors
Distinguishing
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Person wey we dey feel sorry for, e no dey feel sorry for himself.
Cobhams Asuquo
Person
Wey
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
Tennessee Williams
Always
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Even
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
Tennessee Williams
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler
Dead
Die
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Going
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel Butler
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Samuel Butler
About
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler
Bore
Bored
Contemptible
Even
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler
Always
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Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Socrates
First
Him
Himself
Move
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.
Salman Rushdie
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
Rachel Carson
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Nature
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Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.
Rachel Carson
Cosmos
Humanity
Life
Mankind
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Another
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Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
Elbert Hubbard
Believed
Every
Freedom
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Sachin Tendulkar
Every
Field
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Believed,Every,Freedom,Himself,Lived,Tyrant,Who
Elbert Hubbard
Alive
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Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost
Around
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
Acquaintances
Advances
Alone
Constant
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Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
Rodney Dangerfield
Acting
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