Monday 5 August 2013

Good Sayings - 53

1041.  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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1042.  The world will never disarm until disambitioned.
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1043.  Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. _ O.W. Holmes
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1044.  What we earnestly aspire to be, that is some sense we are.  _ Anna Jameson
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1045.  It is safer to hear and take counsel than give it.
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1046.  Stability itself is nothing else than a more sluggish motion. _ Montaigne.
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1047.  All things are admired either because they are new or because they are great.  _ Bacon.
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1048.  We ask advice, but we mean approbation. _ C.C. Colton
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1049.  Anger wishes all mankind had only one neck; love, that is had only one heart.  _ J.P. Richter
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1050.  Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.
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1051.  Truth, goodness and beauty are but different faces of the same all.  _  Emerson
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1051.  Begging a courtesy is selling liberty.
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1052.  Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.  _  Mark Twain
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1053.  It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. _ Aeschylus
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1054.  If the heart be right, it matters not which way the head lies.  _Sir Walter Raleigh
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1055.  A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.  _ Chesterfield
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1056.  A civil denial is better than a rude grant.
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1057.  Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.  _Euripides
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1058.  We easily forget crimes that are known only to ourselves. _ La Rochefoucauld
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1059.  Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.  _  Charles Buxton
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1060.  Curiosity is little more than another name for hope.  _ A.W. & J.C. Hare
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