The quality of a conqueror is to be judged as much by what he spears as by what he spares


Agona Apell

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A man should be judged by what he does, not who he is or where he’s from.
MICHAEL G. SOUTHWICK
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
PROVERB
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
GERMAN PROVERB
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs
GERMAN PROVERB
A person can't be judged by his words, behavior or looks, He can only be judged by their thoughts.
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The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
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ALBERT CAMUS
Human is what he decides to be.
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LEWIS L DUNNINGTON
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LEWIS L DUNNINGTON
Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN
Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
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You don' know how bizarre it is to see Goyle thinking.
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JOHN HOMER MILLER
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KHALIL GIBRAN
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Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
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VIKRANT PARSAI
The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or h...
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If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
BISHOP ROBERT SOUTH
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
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HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
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You are judged of by what you possess.
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SHIV KHERA
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EDMUND MORRIS
When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS...
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listen...
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CHUCK TANNER
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
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JIMMY JOHNSON
When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appe...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
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H. L. MENCKEN
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CHUCK TANNER
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
OSCAR WILDE
In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe. We are as we behave...
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Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.
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What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.
PATRICE LECONTE
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ORLANDO ANTONIO WALTERS
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MIKE DEWINE
Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by wi...
LEWIS J. BATES
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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad
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SCOTT STABILE
A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
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A man's virtue is not measured by who he is, but rather by what he does
EMANOUHL
A coward judges all he sees by what he is.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances ...
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Whenever man decides that he is competent to do as he pleases he is soon enjoying Hell on earth, par...
BERNARD IDDINGS BELL
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ANZIA YEZIERSKA
A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.
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A mountain is broken even by a thunderbolt: is the thunderbolt therefore as big as the mountain? No,...
CHANAKYA
As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
DAVID SEDARIS
He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.
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