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...tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune. – Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honor
A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. – Hesiod
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage. – Alexander Fraser Tyler, Cycle of Democracy (1770)
A great beauty is a muse for the mind, a great mind a muse for the soul. – Simon Gillespie
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. – Dave Meurer
A great meal can be deftly managed or thuggishly muscled, either way resulting in an original offering of scrumptiousness. – Chase LeBlanc
A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness. – Bryant McGill
A small rock holds back a great wave. – Homer
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. – Greek proverb
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. – Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. – Thomas Fuller
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Be great in act, as you have been in thought. – William Shakespeare
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd. – From the I Ching
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. – Charles Dickens
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. – Phyllis McGinley
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. – Bryant McGill
Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind. – George Washington Allston
Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity’s great afflictions. – Bryant McGill
Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world. – General Douglas MacArthur
God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it. – Real Live Preacher
Great minds think independently, not alike. – Unknown
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. – Fran Lebowitz
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein

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