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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
Self discovery
Josh Billings

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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Life and Living
Josh Billings

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
Life and Living
Josh Billings

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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
Music
Josh Billings

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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Conscience
Josh Billings

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The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so.
Uncategorised
Josh Billings

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Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Bigotry
Josh Billings

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Constant togetherness is fine -- but only for Siamese twins.
Relationships
Victoria Billings

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Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.
Evil
Bischer

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
Character
Jacqueline Bisset

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Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
Energy
William Blake

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He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.
Desire
William Blake

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
Time and Time Management
William Blake

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
Friends and Friendship
Arthur Bloch

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Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Forgiveness
Paul Boese

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But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
Childhood
Louise Bogan

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We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
Reason
Henry Bolingbroke

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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Glory
Napoleon Bonaparte

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Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.
Management
Napoleon Bonaparte

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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Riches
Napoleon Bonaparte

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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
Risk
Napoleon Bonaparte

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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Action
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Life and Living
Corrie Ten Boom

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I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
Confusion
Daniel Boone

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
Time and Time Management
Daniel J. Boorstin

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