It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be man of merit
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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
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ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.
LORD PALMERSTON Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; wh...
THOMAS CARLYLE
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THOMAS CARLYLE
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THOMAS CARLYLE
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
PETER NIVIO ZARLENGA
Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
DEYTH BANGER
A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident...
THOMAS CARLYLE
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a
probability of such: it is an accide...
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But what does someone who hates and love...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS
If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man.
WILLIAM SAROYAN
We love and lose in China,
we weep on England's moors,
and laugh and moan in Guinea, MAYA ANGELOU
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY The heart of mankind is evil and wicked; it takes the Holy Spirit to change it.
NORM TOMLINSON They are all stupid peasants, and the worst of all peasants are the so-called educated. These people...
WILLIAM S BURROUGHS
El hombre no domina la naturaleza, sino que, fundándose sobre el conocimiento de unas cuantas leyes...
ERICH FROMM Stupidity is when you won't fear God but you will fear the Frog.
BOAKYE OPOKU AGYEMANG
Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world.
He is the Wise who...
CRISTIANE SERRUYA
Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
TERESA COLLINS
For an optimist, life is full of opportunity. For a pessimist, life is full of adversity. Life is wh...
DEBASISH MRIDHA The beauty of a woman may be the root of all evil.
but the beauty is a only seen, your eyes wants to...
ARVIND YADAV
How you see the world is a reflection of what is within you.
STEPHEN RICHARDS Life is a matter of choosing what is good for you.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO
A man is not completely born until he be dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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VIKRANT PARSAI
It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute...
TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE
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LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
KING SOLOMON We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA These are moments of love and ecstasy. Deeply moving moments when we will fly! Fly together in the a...
AVIJEET DAS It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN
With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN
It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made...
CALVIN JOHNSON
The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK
No man is born to change the world, but just to add a piece of humanity to it.
ERALDO BANOVAC Science is great for us. But for someone who sees the humans for more than one million years, scienc...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA
See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
Jesus said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom o...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
BIBLE Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
EUGENE O'NEILL
Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue
ANNE LAMOTT Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
EUGENE O'NEILL
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Even so, I’m somebody.
I’m the Discoverer of Nature.
I’m the Argonaut of true sensat...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
On ladies' nights they watch frozen-faced while their men embrace and fool about commenting to each ...
GERMAINE GREER
Remember that every man is a variation of yourself
WILLIAM SAROYAN
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
JOHN STEINBECK
He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in som...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The heart is deceitful and wicked in everyone; the Holy Spirit changes even the most wretched sinner...
NORM TOMLINSON Woe unto you if you have come to this world just to fear man,for man is nothing but ordinary dust wi...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his gre...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
No man is born without faults.
UNKNOWN
Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
JOHN BUCHAN
The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.
LORD KELVIN
I’ve seen too many intellectuals lately. I get very tired of the precious intellects who must spea...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wish...
CHARLES TUPPER
A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oa...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
The wishes of an honest man do not stretch beyond what he undoubtedly deserves.
ERALDO BANOVAC
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate...
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I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth...
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POPE JOHN PAUL II
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
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Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on...
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Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi...
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The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d...
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Every old poem is sacred.
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I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelt...
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I teach that all men are mad.
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Gold will be slave or master.
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In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
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When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
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Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
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Whatever advice you give, be brief.
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Those that are little, little things suit.
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Make a good use of the present.
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The covetous man is ever in want.
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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
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It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
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He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
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With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)
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The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
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Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
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If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
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I will not add another word.
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Faults are soon copied.
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In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
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In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
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The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
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A word once uttered can never be recalled.
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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
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There is measure in all things.
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
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Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
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Testy, querulous and given to praising the way things were when he was a boy.
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The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.
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Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
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It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
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I shall not altogether die.
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Alas, Postumus, Postumus, the fleeting years are slipping by.
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Apollo does not always keep his bow strung.
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If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine
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Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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