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All Quotes Collection
"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."
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"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."
28
"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party."
49
"A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality."
11
"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."
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"We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed."
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"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
18
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."
37
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
10
"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."
15
"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed."
18
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
48
"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate."
14
"If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future."
16
"It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive."
9
"If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme."
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"I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
22
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."
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"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour."
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"Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged."
53
"We get paid for bringing value to the market place."
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"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
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"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."
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"The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker."
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"Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it."
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"Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult."
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"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything."
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