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- Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.
- Anne Besant (1847 - 1933)
- Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend;
A wise enemy is worth more. - Jean De la Fontaine (1621 - 1695)
- Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted,
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning
Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
- William Bennet Munro
- Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Thou art all the comfort,
The Gods will diet me with. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
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