Friday 15 February 2008

Good Sayings-28

541. In the fields of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind.
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542. No democracy can exist for long in the midst of want, poverty and inequality.__Jawaharlal Nehru
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543. You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.__Charles C.Noble
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544. Calmness of mind does not mean you should stop your activity. Real calmness should be found in activity itself.
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545. No quality will get a man more friends than a disposition to admire the good qualities of others.
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546. All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
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547. When planning for a year, sow corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life educate men.
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548. If I could give young people the most priceless gift, it would be a talent for waiting.__Howard Whitman
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549. When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself.
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550. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious convictions.__ Blaise Pascal
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551. A child's mind is like a wet cement floor. Anything which falls on it will create a lasting impression.
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552. Look not mournfully to the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine, go forth.
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553. Fame is vapour, popularity an accident, riches take wings, only one thing endures and that is character.
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554. Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
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555. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, keeps away from giving wordy evidence of the fact.__George Eliot
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556. The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry, is like the potato-the best part underground.
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557. If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it.__Ma Yogashakti
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558. To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genious.__Will Henry
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559. The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.__Macaulay
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560. Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.__Aristotle
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