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To be a housewife is ... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed. – Phyllis Mcginley
To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a powerful light inside you! – Mehmet Murat ildan
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. – Henry David Thoreau
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power. – Jane Fonda
To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house. – Katherine Tynan Hinkson
To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation. – Victor Hugo
To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature. – William Shakespeare
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated. – Edith Hamilton
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. – Tillotson
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. – Bertrand Russell
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. – Arnold J. Toynbee
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice. – Kahlil Gibran
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. – Confucius
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. – Confucius, The Confucian Analects
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. – Confucius
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. – Voltaire
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone. – Suzanne Gordon
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature. – Seneca
To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. – Sir Walter Scott
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself. – Richard Whately
To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations. – C. E. Montague
To be an adult is to be alone. – Jean Rostand
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career. – George Santayana
To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves. – Caitlin Matthews
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination. – Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS

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