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"Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"Now I can go back to being ruthless again."
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"There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it."
Heaven
"Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent."
Being
"Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them."
People
"Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it."
Family
"Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel."
Thought
"It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of."
Evil
"Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?"
Love
"A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions."
Family
"Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little."
Politics
"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud."
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