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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard

Friend, Same, Loves

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

Wise, Fool, Himself

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac

Woman, She, Sea

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

Failure, Live, Win

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein

Life, Daily, Deep

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Buddha

Life, Best, Failure

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
George Carlin

Live, Bad, Reason

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Until, Separation

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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates

Good, God, Best

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
P. J. O'Rourke

Children, Everybody, Except

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali

Power, Win, Down

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson

Truth, Mind, Nothing

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

Good, True, Someone

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
Lao Tzu

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sad, Often, Secret

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare

Wise, Father, Child

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin

Peace, Live, Speak

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Mark Twain

Before, After, Pessimist

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
Mark Twain

Place, Wit, Tail

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou

Truth, Place, Fact

He who knows best knows how little he knows.
Thomas Jefferson

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde

Woman, Nothing, Married

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Faith, Education, History

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal

Heart, Nothing, Reason

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx

Great, History, Sex

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde

Nothing, Everything, Value

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
Laurence J. Peter

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde

Woman, Nothing, Married

Self-respect knows no considerations.
Mahatma Gandhi

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