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A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
George Jean Nathan

Love, True, Woman

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Robert Brault

Time, Friend, Value

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Khalil Gibran

Friendship, Morning, Heart

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Franz Schubert

Happy, True, Wife

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
Buddha

Good, Fear, Evil

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
Loretta Young

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare

Life, Good, Everything

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela

Great, After, Climb

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. Lewis

God, Ask, Nonsense

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
Roy H. Williams

Wise, Smart, Him

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
Ronald Reagan

Money, Government, Whatever

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare

Love, Alteration, Alters

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Cannot, Ambition, Merit

The discontented man finds no easy chair.
Benjamin Franklin

Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius, Early, Century

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
Henry Ward Beecher

Thankful, Heart, Blessings

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
Lao Tzu

Him, Few, Agree

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
Elbert Hubbard

Hard, Made, Start

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve

Strength, Hero, Individual

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Peace, Home, King

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Terry Pratchett

Waiting, Light, Wrong

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Real, Others, Excuses

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything, Almost, Sensible

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Great, Talent

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
Rabindranath Tagore

Time, Good, Busy

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Person, Happens, Sensible

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Dead, Until, Language

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

Freedom, True, Liberty

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Change, Great, Human

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

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