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Prophet Joseph Smith

We teach them proper principles

We teach them proper principles and let them govern themselves.

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Horace Greeley

It is impossible to mentally

It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People.

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Robert J. Ringer

If you are prepared, then

If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident.

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Omar Khayyám

Whilom, ere youth?s conceit had

Whilom, ere youth?s conceit had waned, methought Answers to all life?s problems I had wrought; But now, grown old and wise, too late I see My life is spent, and all my lore is nought.

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Virginia Woolf

I meant to write about

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.

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Karl Weick

Simply pushing harder within the

Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.

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Omar Khayyám

Hearts are like tapers, which

Hearts are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes Kindle a flame of love that never dies; And beauty is a flame, where hearts, like moths, Offer themselves a burning sacrifice.

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Johnson

Confidence is a plant of

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.

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Mark Twain

The universal brotherhood of man

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.

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Oscar Wilde

To be natural is such

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

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Francis Beaumont

All confidence which is not

All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.

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Omar Khayyám

When morning silvers the dark

When morning silvers the dark firmament, Why shrills the bird of dawning his lament? It is to show in dawn?s bright looking-glass How of thy careless life a night is spent.

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John Quincy Adams

All men profess honesty as

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

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William James

The community stagnates without the

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

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Nido Qubein

Nothing can add more power

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

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Omar Khayyám

By Fate full many a

By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

A casual stroll through the

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing.

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Kay Ingram

Women prefer men who have

Women prefer men who have something tender about them -- especially the legal kind.

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John McDonald

Your mind, which is yourself,

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

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Omar Khayyám

Pagodas are, like mosques, true

Pagodas are, like mosques, true houses of prayer; ?Tis prayer that church bells waft upon the air; Kaaba and temple, rosary and cross, All are but divers tongues of world-wide prayer.

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Anonymous

Thousands of geniuses live and

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.

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General Karl Von Clausewitz

War is the continuation of

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

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Dr. Maxwell Maltz

You can do only one

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

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Omar Khayyám

To friends and eke to

To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.

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