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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Where you tend a rose,
Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle may not grow.
90
Calvin Coolidge
No person was ever honored
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
43
The Hitopadesa
To address a judicious remark
To address a judicious remark to a thoughtless man is a mere threshing of chaff.
28
Mehmet Murat Ildan
History never recorded this phrase:
History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!
62
John Steinbeck
I know three things will
I know three things will never be believed-the true, the probable, and the logical.
577
Aristotle
Excellence is an art won
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
45
The Hitopadesa
The man who listens not
The man who listens not to the words of affectionate friends will give joy in the time of distress to his enemies.
32
Mehmet Murat Ildan
A night without stars is
A night without stars is a night wasted.
60
Edgar Allan Poe
Those who dream by day
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
124
Bible
And the work of righteousness
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
27
Jacqueline Job
Understanding is power and whoever
Understanding is power and whoever has it has everything.
30
The Hitopadesa
Good actions lead to success,
Good actions lead to success, as good medicines to a cure: a healthy man is joyful, and a diligent man attains learning; a just man gains the reward of his virtue.
14
Schiller
There is no such thing
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
31
Winston Churchill
When you have to kill
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
74
The Hitopadesa
A man eminent in learning
A man eminent in learning has not even a little virtue if he fears to practise it. What precious things can be shown to a blind man when he holds a lamp in his hand?
17
Jacqueline Job
The reality is not always
The reality is not always our destiny.
32
Saadi
Better hold the hand for
Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all.
62
George Eliot
Blessed is the man who,
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
60
Mehmet Murat Ildan
How close we can approach
How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?
72
The Hitopadesa
If the friendship of the
If the friendship of the good be interrupted, their minds admit of no long change; as when the stalks of a lotus are broken the filaments within them are more visibly cemented.
21
Saadi
He that has acquired learning
He that has acquired learning and nor practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed.
51
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is more difficult, and
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
256
Jacqueline Job
Any good reward well deserved
Any good reward well deserved is well preserved.
30
The Hitopadesa
The man who neither gives
The man who neither gives in charity nor enjoys his wealth, which every day increases, breathes, indeed, like the bellows of a smith, but cannot be said to live.
33