| Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. -- Nagarjuna |
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NagarjunaEra:
100 |
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| The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. -- H. L. Mencken |
| Author:
Mencken, H. L.Era:
1880 |
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| Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. -- Mark Twain |
| Author:
Twain, MarkEra:
1835 |
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| You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. -- James L. Allen |
| Author:
Allen, James L.Era:
1849 |
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| I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author:
Wilde, OscarEra:
1854 |
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| My patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer, with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. -- Alexander Pope |
| Author:
Pope, AlexanderEra:
1688 |
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| The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze. -- Buddha |
| Author:
BuddhaEra:
-568 |
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| Perils, and misfortunes, and want, and pain, and injury, are more or less the certain lot of every man that cometh into the world. It behooveth thee, therefore, O child of calamity! early to fortify thy mind with courage and patience, that thou mayest support, with a becoming resolution, thy allotted portion of human evil. -- Akhenaton |
| Author:
AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid...for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. -- Deuteronomy |
| Author:
DeuteronomyEra:
-1200 |
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| Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. -- George Santayana |
| Author:
Santayana, GeorgeEra:
1863 |
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| A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. -- Joseph Stalin |
| Author:
Stalin, JosephEra:
1879 |
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| Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body. -- Ovid |
| Author:
OvidEra:
-43 |
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| Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. -- Francis de Sales |
| Author:
de Sales, FrancisEra:
1567 |
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| Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it...the basest of all things is to be afraid. -- William Faulkner |
| Author:
Faulkner, WilliamEra:
1897 |
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| As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart sustaineth him; and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out. -- Akhenaton |
| Author:
AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. -- Victor Hugo |
| Author:
Hugo, VictorEra:
1802 |
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| Every man of courage is a man of his word. -- Pierre Corneille |
| Author:
Corneille, PierreEra:
1606 |
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| When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad. -- Tacitus |
| Author:
TacitusEra:
55 |
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| Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination. -- George Catlett Marshall |
| Author:
Marshall, George C.Era:
1880 |
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| As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him. -- Akhenaton |
| Author:
AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Broun |
| Author:
Broun, HeywoodEra:
1888 |
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| Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. -- Ovid |
| Author:
OvidEra:
-43 |
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