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"proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect." »English Proverb
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"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone." »Henry David Thoreau
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"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them." »Titus Livius
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." »Anais Nin
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"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." »Henry David Thoreau
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"When you see yourself in proportion -- as you're bound to do when you get some sense -- then you see how much greater what is real is than anything you can put down." »Eudora Welty
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"Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it." »Paul De Rapin
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"For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." »Francis Bacon
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"The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity." »Marcel Proust
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"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem." »John Galsworthy
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"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking." »Margaret Fuller
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"Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity." »Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion." »Aristotle
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"I have discovered, in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats." »Bill Veeck
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"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." »Vince Lombardi
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"Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem." »Harvey Mindess
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"A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast." »Albert Cooper
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"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt." »Thomas Merton
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"Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it." »Orison Swett Marden
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"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion." »William Cullen Bryant
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"I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience." »Samuel Johnson
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"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." »James Boswell
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"The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government." »Madame Chiang
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"Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift." »Tom Stoppard
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"By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn." »Blaise Pascal
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