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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
SophoclesSophocles A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
SophoclesSophocles Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
SophoclesSophocles All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
SophoclesSophocles Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
SophoclesSophocles Kindness will always attract kindness.
SophoclesSophocles The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
SophoclesSophocles The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
SophoclesSophocles What greater wound is there than a false friend?
SophoclesSophocles All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
SophoclesSophocles Opportunity has power over all things.
SophoclesSophocles Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
SophoclesSophocles Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
SophoclesSophocles You win the victory when you yield to friends.
SophoclesSophocles Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
SophoclesSophocles God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight.
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ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix I wish you the wildest of dreams.
Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld I love to be busy and be challenged. I’m my happiest when I’m under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
Aisha TylerAisha Tyler I love to be busy and be challenged. I’m my happiest when I’m under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
Aisha TylerAisha Tyler Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier I have not suffered a lot for Christ, but I want to tell you that those times that I have suffered and I knew it was for Jesus, have been some of the happiest times of my entire life.
Adrian RogersAdrian Rogers Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.
Adam ShankmanAdam Shankman The happiest people among us are those who can sleep when they want to.
Abu Sufyan ibn HarbAbu Sufyan ibn Harb Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.
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