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"The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest."

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"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."

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"Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens."

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"In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it."

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"When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves.""

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"To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect."

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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

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"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value."

Louis L'Amour, American Author

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"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough."

Fran Lebowitz, American Journalist

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"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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"Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."

George Washington, American President

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"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

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"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

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"Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

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"The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest."

"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."

"Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens."

"In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it."

"When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves.""

"To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect."

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

"How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?"

"From caring comes courage."

"When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish."

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"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

"Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value."

"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country."

"When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough."

"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."

"Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this."

"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."

"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."

"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

"Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed."