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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love, Together, Same

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle

Dignity, Deserving, Possessing

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw

Success, Time, Mistakes

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Justice, May

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost

Lawyer, Decide, Chosen

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Thomas Paine

Equality, Happy, Justice

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Coco Chanel

Dress, Elegance, Putting

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Gratitude, May, Words

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift

Lie, Words, Desire

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine

Happiness, Infidelity, Faithful

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
Alexander Hamilton

Change, Cannot, Reason

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Aldous Huxley

Age, History, Nothing

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Made, Riches, Possession

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
Karl Marx

Society, Stand, Within

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
Ambrose Bierce

High, Found, Ability

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Thomas Fuller

Fire, Away, Taking

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Life, Happiness, Absence

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
Desiderius Erasmus

Good, Lie, Knowing

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
Paracelsus

Life, Art, Science

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.
Paul Weyrich

Allah, Words, Himself

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
Cesar Chavez

Education, Best, Book

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
Charles Morgan

Change, Happiness, Art

Happiness does not consist in self-love.
Joseph Butler

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Life, Time, Making

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.
William Law

Life, Holy, State

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
John Updike

Marriage, Teacher, Peasant

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
Emma Goldman

Woman, Her, Rather

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Vidal Sassoon

Equality, Happy, Justice

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
Louise Brooks

Great, Art, Thought

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
Charles Babbage

Knowledge, Another, Ambition

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