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When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
Prayer
Indian Proverb

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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Literature
Henry James

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.
Love
Japanese Proverb

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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
Mistakes
Billy Joel

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A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.
Piety
Samuel Johnson

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Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
Virtue
Samuel Johnson

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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Mistakes
James Joyce

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It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.
Gifts
Peggy Hopkins Joyce

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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Achievement
Jack Kinder

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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Constitutions
Henry Kissinger

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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
Mistakes
Philip Knight

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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Words
Karl Kraus

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Death and Dying
Jean De La Fontaine

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An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
Optimism
Ring Lardner

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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Authority
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
Friends and Friendship
John Leonard

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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
Selfishness
Oscar Levant

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Courage
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
Reason
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Thoughts and Thinking
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Mistakes
Sophia Loren

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It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
Advice
J. C. Macaulay

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.
Mistakes
Bernard Magazine

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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.
Power
Malcolm X

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.
Failure
Dan Mckinnon

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