"It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Act, Being, Cleverness

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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Act, Heaven

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

William Blake, English Poet

Act, Evening, Night, Sleep

"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."

bell hooks, American Critic

Act, Ego, Past, Self

"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

Act, Books, Creation

"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Act, Beginning, Violence

"Think before you act and act on what you believe."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

William James, American Philosopher

Act, Difference, Will

"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

Act, Mind, Reflection, Thinking

"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

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"We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears."

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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

Man, Men

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

People, Goodness

"Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another."

Love, Jealousy, Self

"The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech."

Heart, Country, Man, Mind

"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."

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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."

"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."

"Think before you act and act on what you believe."

"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."

"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."

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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

"We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears."

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another."

"The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech."

"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

"We pardon to the extent that we love."

"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."