"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

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"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

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"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."

Alan Watts, English Philosopher

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"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being."

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"We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done."

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"Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness."

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"Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect."

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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."

"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."

"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

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"Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt."

"To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die."

"The mind is always the patsy of the heart."

"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."

"Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while."

"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being."

"We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done."

"Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness."

"Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect."

"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."