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"Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator." »Cicero
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"Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose" »Johann von Goethe
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"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true." »John Lilly
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"Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about They are more true they are the only things that are true." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true." »George Bernard Shaw, Candida (1898) act 1
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"I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, Even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love." »Unknown
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"true friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be." »Henri-Frederic Amiel
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"It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means." »Charles Kingsley
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"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah." »Richard Bach
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"I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them." »Michel de Montaigne
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"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science." »Albert Einstein
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"true modesty and true pride are much the same thing. Both consist in setting a just value on ourselves?neither more nor less." »Hazlitt
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"The true skeptic will never believe you no matter how much proof you offer him. The true believer does not need it." »Peter James, Ghosts of the Queen Mary
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""There are certainly moments," said Chad, "when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are true," he added, "that seems to be all that need concern me."" »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eleventh, Chapter 1
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"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance." »Orville Wright
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"It is true that men are no fit judges of themselves, because commonly they are partial to their own cause; yet it is as true that he who will dispose himself to judge indifferently of himself can do it better than any body else, because a man can see farther into his own mind and heart than any one else can." »Harrington
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"Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor." »Robert Frost
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"Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more." »Sir John Lubbock
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"America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true." »James T. Farrell
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"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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""Just because you believe something is true doesn't automatically make it true."" »Tom Zegan
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"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." »La Rochefoucauld
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"Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true." »H. L. Mencken
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"Platitude an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true." »H.L. Mencken
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"Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Wisdom alone is the true and unalloyed coin for which we ought to exchange all things, for this and with this everything is bought and sold?fortitude, temperance, and justice; in a word, true virtue subsists with wisdom." »Plato
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"If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences." »Eugene Edwards
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"true greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain." »Richard Nixon
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