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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Opinion, Conveyed, Tone

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Marcus Aurelius

Men, Others, Less

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
Henry David Thoreau

Service, Books, Ourselves

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Vincent Van Gogh

Night, Alive, Colored

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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
Samuel Richardson

Great, Words, Eyes

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
Henry David Thoreau

Rather, Property, Houses

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.
Henry David Thoreau

Sick, Happens, Nurse

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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham

Life, Funny, Best

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.
Frank Sinatra

Women, Men, Truth

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Robert Frost

Power, History, Away

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw

Spice, Adds, Quote

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Dale Carnegie

Work, Worry, Resentment

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.
Tom Brady

Life, Happy, Blame

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Andrew Jackson

Government, Selfish, Powerful

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert Camus

Death, Law, Trying

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
Sigmund Freud

Dreams, Crazy, Seem

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham

Courage, Brave, Others

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Powerful, Rich

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
David Grayson

Regret, Looking, Loved

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Success, Loved, Lived

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Hurt, Reality, Suffer

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill

Defeat, Misfortune, Temporary

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.
Oliver Hudson

Life, Family, Nothing

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
Voltaire

Husband, Wife, Himself

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert Hubbard

Success, Failure, Between

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
Frank Sinatra

Yourself, Important, Pretty

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Elbert Hubbard

Alone, Help, Leaving

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen

Person, May, Words

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
Elbert Hubbard

Success, Loved, Worked

I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.
Bill Cosby

Love, Person, Try

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