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Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
Tact and Tactfulness
Jean Cocteau

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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Sympathy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
Wit
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.
Consistency
Benjamin Disraeli

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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
Destiny
Benjamin Disraeli

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.
Success
Benjamin Disraeli

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Management
Peter F. Drucker

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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Worth
Thomas A. Edison

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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
Belief
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.
Courage
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
Thoughts and Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Poverty consist in feeling poor.
Poverty and The Poor
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
Society
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ugliness
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Valor consists in the power of self recovery.
Valor
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education
Education
Paul Karl Feyerabend

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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
Duty
John Fowles

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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Law and Lawyers
Robert Frost

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Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Contentment
Thomas Fuller

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The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
Detail
Edward Gibbon

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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Invention and Inventor
Albert Gyorgyi

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As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.
Food and Eating
Buddy Hackett

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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Contradiction
Thomas Hardy

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A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Chastity
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
Inheritance
William Hazlitt

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