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If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Heart, Free

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James A. Baldwin

Education, Society, Become

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Charles Kingsley

Work, Best, Strength

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nothing, Give, Through

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Carl Jung

Life, Death, Away

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
Colin Powell

Life, Health, Destiny

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Truth, Lie, Lies

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Washington Irving

Heart, Woman, Fire

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Alan Watts

Try, Sense, Image

The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court.
Kobe Bryant

Ego, Basketball, Black

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.
Dave Brubeck

Mistakes, Before, Play

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
James A. Baldwin

Law, Hatred, Destroy

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
Orison Swett Marden

Everything, Become, Inside

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
James Russell Lowell

Love, Give, Through

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
Dwight L. Moody

Book, Bible, Defend

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan Watts

Love, Actually, Pretend

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
Karl Marx

Society, Political, Human

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Mind, Away, Afraid

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

Power, Law, Liberty

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friends, Sake, Perform

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Walt Whitman

Good, Lost, Same

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Liberty, Individual, Eroded

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
Benjamin Disraeli

Moment, Last, Secret

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Experience, Young, Once

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson

Truth, Knowledge, Wise

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
Orison Swett Marden

Others, Knowing, Stimulus

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett Marden

Knowledge, Wisdom, Become

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.
Colin Powell

Best, Team, Situation

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois

Time, Bad, Busy

The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.
Pythagoras

Words, Thought, Yes

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