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True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding. Ellen G. White

Love True Love Alone Wise Love Is Strong Passion Calm On The Contrary Abide Impetuous Mere True Beyond Attracted Qualities Looks Devotion Real Discriminating Contrary Fiery Deep Element

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. Benjamin Franklin

Youth Made On The Contrary More Observed Countries Course Became Were Provided Provisions Contrary Did Done Different Different Countries Public Them Poor Themselves Poorer Much Richer Less Traveled

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. Aldous Huxley

Man Long On The Contrary Has-Been Given Habit Adult Develop He Development Most Himself Arrested Continuing Been Contrary Child-Like Convention After Middle-Aged Themselves Who Cocoon Whose Chance

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. Niccolo Machiavelli

Life Good Man Simple Sometimes Men Example First Wicked Imitate Virtues Good Men Strive One-Man Lead Him Return Principles Caused His Contrary Influence Republic Ashamed Good Example

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. Paul Tournier

Life Struggle Suffering Acceptance Nothing On The Contrary Complexes Running Running Away Accepting Does Contrary Psychological Mean Means Away Injustices Resignation Heredity

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Friendship You Become Relation On The Contrary Say Tact More Disagreeable Come Courtesy Contrary Person Flatter Your Nearer Things Necessary

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. Archibald MacLeish

Silence You Superior Own Once Those Citadel Has-Been Suppress Opinions Permit Been Contrary Just Censor Hold Convinced Moment Who

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. Baruch Spinoza

Nature Absurd Contrary Whatsoever Reason

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. Paul Kurtz

Life Death Fruit Meaning Of Life Living Tree Tree Of Life On The Contrary Hidden Some Eating Only Mysterious Discovered Contrary After Meaning Meaning Of Realm Fully Creatively Found Now Here

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. Salvador Dali

Nature You Try Will Mistakes On The Contrary Thoroughly Correct Possible Rationalize Sacred Never Almost Understand Always Contrary After Them

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. Aldous Huxley

Life Nature People Consistency Consistent Only Dead Contrary

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. Frederic Bastiat

Life Property Liberty Made Men First On The Contrary Laws Fact Make First Place Because Caused Exist Existed Beforehand Contrary Place

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. Mikhail Bakunin

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. Friedrich Nietzsche

Positions Extreme Contrary Moderate Succeeded

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. Marguerite Duras

God Man Master Own Alcohol On The Contrary Destiny Console Folly He Supreme Him Comfort His Encourages Up Contrary Lack Where Anyone Psychological Regions Transports Gaps Fill

The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium. Dorothy L. Sayers

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The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it. Confucius

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