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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Debt
Benjamin Franklin

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What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
Value
Edgar Z. Friedenberg

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Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
Churches
Thomas Fuller

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Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.
Riches
Thomas Fuller

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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
Uncategorised
Indira Gandhi

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Action
Giuseppe Garibaldi

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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears.
Eyes
German Proverb

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.
Truth
Kahlil Gibran

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The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
Desire
Kahlil Gibran

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The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
Teachers and Teaching
Kahlil Gibran

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The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
Understanding
Emma Goldman

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Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
Heroes and Heroism
Baltasar Gracian

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Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.
Friends and Friendship
David Grayson

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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Ambition
Angus Grossart

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
Work
George Halas

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
Reason
Alexander Hamilton

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I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
Sophistication
Christopher Hampton

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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
Wonder
Abraham J. Heschel

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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Critics and Criticism
Victor Hugo

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Love
Robert Green Ingersoll

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People would rather be wrong than be different.
Originality
Henry Jacobsen

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I'd rather be dead than singing Satisfaction when I'm forty-five.
Song and Singing
Mick Jagger

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I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
Forgiveness
Gerald G. Jampolsky

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Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.
Service
Gerald G. Jampolsky

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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
Service
St. Jerome

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