“ He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others… cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. ”
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox- Copy
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“ The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden. ”
- Phillips Brooks- Copy
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“ What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self. ”
- Johann Gottfried Von Herder- Copy
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“ Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship, let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest! ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ the sources of the truest truths are inevitably profoundly personal. ”
- Saul Bellow- Copy
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“ The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music… Bodies never lie. ”
- Agnes de Mille- Copy
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“ The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude. ”
- Katharine Fullerton Gerould- Copy
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“ In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live. ”
- Sir Thomas Brown- Copy
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“ Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ It is a brave act to despise death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. ”
- Sir Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. ”
- Viktor E. Frankl- Copy
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“ Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition. ”
- George Washington Carver- Copy
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“ I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be… a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a bon vivant and a lady killer, as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist … and saint… ”
- William James- Copy
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“ I know, indeed, of nothing more subtle, satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from a fine physical state. It cannot be bought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward. ”
- William Dean Howells- Copy
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“ Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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“ First impressions are often the truest, as we find to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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