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A man who always speaks the truth wholeheartedly is greater than those who do penance and deeds of charity.


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JEAN COCTEAU I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
JEAN COCTEAU Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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MIDRASH A radical is one who speaks the truth.
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make o...
DAYANANDA SARASWATI There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike...
SUZY KASSEM I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have alwa...
CINDY SHEEHAN Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
GEORGE SAND Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves.
GEORGE ALEXIOU A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
PATRICK KAVANAGH It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
FELIX FRANKFURTER It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals
FELIX FRANKFURTER The word 'religion' has acquired a very bad name among those who really love truth, justice, charity...
LUTHER BURBANK None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
JOHN COLLINS Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody
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FELIX FRANKFURTER In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches...
CRISS JAMI The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.
ALLAN BLOOM The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
AYN RAND Your smiling in your brother's face is charity; and your exhorting man to virtuous deeds is charity;...
MUHAMMAD At last they've got a manager who speaks better English than they do
BRIAN CLOUGH We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carr...
ERIC HOFFER Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who h...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our cr...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
H. L. MENCKEN Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.
EMILE M. CIORAN The vast world rainless, one may bid adieu
To charity and penance.
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WILLIAM BLAKE I love those who accept the truth not those who accept love. For love is the slave of the truth.
EPHDAN There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
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ROBERT EMMET SHERWOOD Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting ch...
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CHUANG TZU It is always worth asking, "Who speaks through us?
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ORIGEN A prophet is not a man who tells the future; he is a man who tells the truth.
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ALAN COLMES How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his nati...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Those who do not have will always serve those who do.
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
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MIKHAIL BAKUNIN A person who performs good Karma (deeds) is always held in high esteem.
RIG VEDA Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.
EDWIN ARNOLD One who listens learns more than one who speaks.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greate...
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RAHEEM ASKIA Considering the notion that the spiritual battlefield is infinitely greater than the physical, perha...
CRISS JAMI Having money but without charity concerns is a greater tragedy than living in penury.
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H. L. MENCKEN The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ost...
WILLIAM HUTTON The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and o...
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WILLIAM HUTTON I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth gr...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth gr...
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HARMON KILLEBREW The people who actually do things always suffer the slings and arrows of those who don't.
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HELMUT THIELICKE When affection only speaks, truth is not always there
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more...
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SAINT BASIL Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
VOLTAIRE A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
CYRANO DE BERGERAC A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
EDMOND ROSTAND He who knows the source is greater than he who knows the store
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MOSS HART Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
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To Those Who Dare,
To Those Who Do,
To Those Who Succeed.

S...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and...
LLOYD JONES Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
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ROBERT MUSIL The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
PROVERB The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
FRENCH PROVERB

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