Miscellaneous Quotes

• "There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self."
  By: Hindustani Proverb
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• "An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were."
  By: Henry S. Haskins
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• "The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself."
  By: Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, 1945
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• "No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."
  By: Henry Adams
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• "The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together."
  By: Havelock Ellis
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• "Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep."
  By: H.M. Tomlinson
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• "The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it."
  By: Goethe
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• "Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents."
  By: George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
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• "Admiration and familiarity are strangers."
  By: George Sand
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• "Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests."
  By: George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
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• "Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
  By: G.B. Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists, 1898
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• "We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones."
  By: François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665
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• "The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind."
  By: Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
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• "Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
  By: Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955
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• "You can never plan the future by the past."
  By: Edmund Burke, Letter to a Member of the National Assembly
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• "The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?"
  By: Dale Carnegie
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