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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. George Herbert
Confidence Army Skill
There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening. Henry Van Dyke
God Good You Heart Listening Be True Believe Every Ought Unless Positively Rules Tell Bad About Absolutely Never Written True Feel Know Anybody Anything Which Even Necessary Every Heart Two
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Judge Others Ourselves Feel Doing Done While Capable Us
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Heart Words Torn Mended Bruise Soon Child Jacket Hard Hard Words
The human voice is the organ of the soul. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Soul Organ Voice Human Human Voice
The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing. Herbert Read
Wind Bitter Knows Blowing Artist Sensitive
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. Horace
Death Kings Impartial Hut Step Towers Knocks Poor Pale
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. Jean de La Fontaine
Death Wise Man Wise Man Never He Takes Ready Always Go Surprise
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Eyes See Front The Hardest Thing Your Hardest Hardest Thing Thing
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character Man Nothing Laughs More He Than Shows
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature Progress Development Knows Curse Inaction Pause Her
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. John Donne
Motivational World Own Thy Jail Palace Thine
All the windows of my heart I open to the day. John Greenleaf Whittier
Day Heart Windows Open Romantic
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. John Keats
Wisdom You Wise Man Will Vain Definition Neither Vanity Give He Proud Proud Man Nor Cannot Who Filled
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. John Keats
Water Kick Top Would Temper Scarcely Come Am Were
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. John Keats
Art Every Disagreeable Making Intensity Capable Evaporate
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. John Milton
Death Key Opens Golden Eternity Palace
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence. John Milton
Love Good Freedom Rest Men Good Men Licence None Heartily
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. John Milton
Wise Liberty Men Speedily Complaints Considered Civil Civil Liberty Attained Wise Men Bound Freely Look Heard Reformed Then Utmost Deeply
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. John Milton
Character Man Superior Past Sayings Superior Man Himself His Antiquity Order Deeds Many Thereby Strengthen
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. Jorge Luis Borges
Life Man Made Single Once Out Finds He Single Moment Up Any Which Moment Who
Democracy is an abuse of statistics. Jorge Luis Borges
Government Democracy Statistics Abuse
Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place. Judith Wright
You Emotions Language Feelings Honored Authentic Place Your Who Expression Deepest Universal Universal Language
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. Khalil Gibran
Joy Pain Dash Poetry Deal Wonder Dictionary
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. Khalil Gibran
Time Shall Am Till Exist Existed End Behold Being Eternity Here
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. Khalil Gibran
Heart Mind He Look Understand Person Achieved
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