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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Helen Rowland

Love, Sense, Common

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Thomas A. Edison

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

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Thomas Paine

Power, Strength, Fear

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art, Line, Morality

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Thomas Carlyle

Mind, Blessing, Fortune

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

Real, Eyes, Discovery

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass

Done, Greatness, Ability

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art, Beautiful, Picture

Business today consists in persuading crowds.
T. S. Eliot

Business, Today, Persuading

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Quentin Crisp

Life, Happiness, Character

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
Bertrand Russell

Mind, Rather, Discipline

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand Russell

Power, Greatest, Others

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
Woody Allen

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Blaise Pascal

Nature, Death, Rest

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Saying, Dead, Alive

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
Mortimer Adler

Love, True, Giving

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
Albert Schweitzer

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Power, Law, Liberty

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucker

Work, Difficult, Making

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
John Adams

Government, Control, Free

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life, Dreams, Service

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Before, Perfect, Everyone

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Joseph Conrad

Men, Woman, Difficult

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men, Justice, Giving

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Life, Positive, Freedom

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
George Eliot

Soul, Belief, Accepting

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
Hermann Hesse

Mind, Line, Beyond

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.
Lillie Langtry

Life, Work, Happy

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Leo Tolstoy

Death, Others, Suffering

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