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Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.
Luck
Lord Beaverbrook

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I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.
Competition
Boris Becker

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
Age and Aging
May L. Becker

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Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.
Law and Lawyers
Ward Becker

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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Silence
Samuel Beckett

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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
Punctuality
Samuel Beckett

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
Music
Sir Thomas Beecham

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
Music
Sir Thomas Beecham

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A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
Libraries
Henry Ward Beecher

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Adversity
Henry Ward Beecher

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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Books - Reading
Henry Ward Beecher

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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
Appearance
Henry Ward Beecher

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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
Principles
Henry Ward Beecher

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Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
Fear
Henry Ward Beecher

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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.
Forgiveness
Henry Ward Beecher

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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Sacrifice
Henry Ward Beecher

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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
Opinions
Henry Ward Beecher

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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
Riches
Henry Ward Beecher

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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
Family
Henry Ward Beecher

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
Heart
Henry Ward Beecher

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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
Humankind
Henry Ward Beecher

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Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
Theology
Henry Ward Beecher

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!
Work
Henry Ward Beecher

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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
Music
Sir Max Beerbohm

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Music
Ludwig Van Beethoven

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