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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln

Time, Live, Through

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Helen Keller

Sunshine, Keep, Face

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Work, Made

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Mark Twain

Time, Away, Fit

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand

Earth, Rights, Individual

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
Judy Garland

Love, Money, Live

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde

Real, Soul, Taken

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
Thomas Sowell

Government, Amazing, Pay

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Education, Real, Democracy

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
George Bernard Shaw

Done, Interrupt

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Mark Twain

Learn, Hold, Cat

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
Mark Twain

Everything, Educated, Gold

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kindness, Late, Soon

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom, True, Job

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain

Good, Read, Books

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Mark Twain

Himself, Written, Clothes

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
Lao Tzu

Change, Nothing, Try

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark Twain

Person, Able, Against

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Mark Twain

Hurt, Water, Anybody

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis

Young, Reading, Atheist

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson

History, Government, Him

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
Dalai Lama

Freedom, Democracy, Liberty

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Dance, Learn, Stand

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde

Book, Enjoy, Again

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship, Important, Self

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Except, Hungry

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
Ronald Reagan

God, Long, Democracy

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William Shakespeare

Age, Youth, Loves

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Mahatma Gandhi

Moment, Compromise, Perfection

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