The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.
BILL VAUGHANSome idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.
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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
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The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?
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Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who’s reading it.
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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin.
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If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
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Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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