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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Failure
George S. Patton

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No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
Heroes and Heroism
Jean Paul

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I know it does make people happy, but to me it is just like having a cup of tea.
Sex
Cynthia Payne

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Change
Octavio Paz

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Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
Celibacy
Thomas Love Peacock

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.
Knowledge
William Penn

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To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
Virtue
William Penn

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The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.
Relationships
Alexandria Penney

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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
Music
Samuel Pepys

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
Failure
H. Ross Perot

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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Originality
Laurence J. Peter

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
Character
Peter The Great

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.
Happiness
Wilferd A. Peterson

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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
Abundance
John Petit-Senn

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We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
Pleasure
John Petit-Senn

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Love
Francesco Petrarch

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The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.
Beauty
Ambrose Philips

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Failure
Wendell Phillips

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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
Puritans
Wendell Phillips

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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Imitation
Pablo Picasso

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Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.
Communication
John A. Piece

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Age and Aging
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
Gentlemen
Luigi Pirandello

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Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
Poverty and The Poor
William Pitt

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Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
Poverty and The Poor
William Pitt

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