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"Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.." -Oscar Wilde-
"Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.".-Aesop-
"Despair is the conclusion of fools.".-Benjamin Disraeli-
"Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men;for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.".-Cato the Elder
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"Silence is the virtue of fools.".-Francis Bacon-
"I'll publish right or wrong. Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.".-Lord George Byron-
"Prejudices are what fools use for reason.".-Voltaire-
"Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes.".-Antisthenes-
"It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies;seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
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"Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.".-Laurence Sterne-
"It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.".-Publilius Syrus-
"Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.".-Angelina Grimke-
"Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant;but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
"The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence;and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.".-George Santayana-
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"How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!".-Logan Pearsall Smith-
"There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.".-Plato-
"Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!".-Winston Churchill-
"Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart.".-Bhagavad Gita-
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.".-Dale Carnegie-
"Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.".-Hosea Ballou-
"There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.".-Lord George Byron-
"Truth is beautiful, without doubt;but so are lies.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.".-Abraham Lincoln-
"A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations.".-Bertrand Russell-
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.".-Helen Keller-
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"The path of duty was the way to glory.".-Lord Alfred Tennyson-
"Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.".-Phillips Brooks-
"It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.".-Woodrow T. Wilson-
"God owns heaven but He craves the earth.".-Anne Sexton-
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"The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.." -Oscar Wilde-
"Fools admire, but men of sense approve.".-Alexander Pope-
"Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.".-Charles Caleb Colton
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"If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.".-Mark Twain-
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.".-Winston Churchill-
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies;for the hardest victory is the victory over self.".-Aristotle-
"Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
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"Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies;and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.".-Laurence Sterne-
"In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.".-Voltaire-
"The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently;but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.".-Aristotle-
"Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way;and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.".-Helen Keller-
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"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.".-Lord Acton-
"To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.".-Plutarch-
"No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.".-A. A. Milne-
"Thoughts are things;they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.".-Bryan Adams-
"I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.".-David Jenkins-
"Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair;despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.".-Isidore Ducasse Comte De Lautreamont-
"My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain ".-Lord Melbourne-
"There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intelle".-Vaclav Havel-
"The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.".-Alexis Carrel-
"Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit;and his whole duty is to think as he ought.".-Blaise Pascal-
"Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.".-Helen Rowland-
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"The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.".-Lord Melbourne-
"Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.".-Pierre Corneille-
"There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.".-Woodrow T. Wilson-
"It doesn't matter who my father was;it matters who I remember he was.".-Anne Sexton-
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"Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.." -Pope John XXIII-
"For Forms of Government let fools contest;whatever is best administered is best.".-Alexander Pope-
"Most fools think they are only ignorant.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.".-Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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"Get the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.".-Frank Dane-
"Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently;but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.".-Mark Twain-
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?".-Abraham Lincoln-
"Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.".-Arthur Bloch-
"Beware of no man more than of yourself;we carry our worst enemies within us.".-Charles Haddon Spurgeon-
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"It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.".-Frank Dane-
"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.".-Leon Trotsky-
"May God defend me from my friends;I can defend myself from my enemies.".-Voltaire-
"Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.".-Barbara Grizzuti Harrison-
"A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious ''retreat'' of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.".-Cyril Connolly-
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.".-Helen Keller-
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"True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.".-Lord Shaftesbury-
"As soon as there is life there is danger.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.".-Abraham J. Heschel-
"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts;it is a sword that kills.".-Buddha-
"I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.".-Desiderius Erasmus-
"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.".-Kahlil Gibran-
"As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.".-Mark Twain-
"If we didn't live adventurously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt;but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.".-Virginia Woolf-
"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.".-Alfred Adler-
"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.".-Bruce Lee-
"For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.".-Henry David Thoreau-
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"Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.".-Mark Twain-
"It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.".-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin-
"When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.".-Woodrow T. Wilson-
"The joy that isn't shared dies young.".-Anne Sexton-
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"Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.." -Queen Elizabeth-
"Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.".-Alexander Pope-
"Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.".-Dale Carnegie
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"There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.".-Henry Ford-
"Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
"Enemies promises were made to be broken.".-Aesop-
"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.".-Christopher Morley-
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"A politician divides mankind into two classes;tools and enemies.".-Fredrich-
"No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.".-Lord Alfred Tennyson-
"My prayer to God is a very short one: ''O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous!'' God has granted it.".-Voltaire-
"They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.".-F. L. Lucan-
"We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control;when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.".-Henry Miller-
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"Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long;even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.".-Louisa May Alcott-
"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.".-Abraham Lincoln-
"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
"Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.".-Francis Bacon-
"Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.".-Kin Hubbard-
"I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.".-Mark Twain-
"Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.".-Voltaire-
"The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.".-Andrew Jackson-
"Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.".-C. S. Lewis-
"He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.".-Henry Ward Beecher-
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"Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.".-Mark Twain-
"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.".-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin-
"In a dream you are never eighty.".-A. Sexton-
"The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.".-Anne Sexton-
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