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Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
Learning
Thomas Fuller

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In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in.
Fortune
German Proverb

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The surrounding that householders crave are glorified autobiographies.
Biography
T. H. Gibblings

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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
Law and Lawyers
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
Finance
Robert Graves

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It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
Opportunity
Eric Hoffer

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We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Attitude
Elbert Hubbard

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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Dreams
Langston Hughes

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Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Competency
Raymond Hull

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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Beauty
Immermann

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He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.
Speakers and Speaking
Italian Proverb

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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Writers and Writing
Henry James

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
Life and Living
Thomas Jefferson

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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Books - Reading
Samuel Johnson

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No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
Censorship
Samuel Johnson

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.
Housework
Beverly Jones

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
Housework
Erica Jong

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Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
Duty
Joseph Joubert

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We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.
People
John F. Kennedy

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Courage
King Jr. Martin Luther

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It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
Promotion
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
Letters
D. H. Lawrence

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The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
Life and Living
H. T. Leslie

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A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Joe E. Lewis

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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Circumstance
Jack London

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun