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A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
Wit
Lord Chesterfield

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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
Persuasion
Lord Chesterfield

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Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
Literature
Lord Chesterfield

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.
Courage
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
Analysis
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
Convalescence
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
Truth
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
Fights and Fighting
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Love
Maurice Chevalier

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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
Judgment and Judges
Lydia M. Child

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Adversity
Chinese Proverb

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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Beginning
Chinese Proverb

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
Wisdom
Chinese Proverb

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An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.
Time and Time Management
Chinese Proverb

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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.
Faults
Chinese Proverb

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One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool.
Humor
Chinese Proverb

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Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Patience
Chinese Proverb

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
Failure
Chinese Proverb

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The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.
Victory
Chinese Proverb

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Action
Chinese Proverb

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.
Knowledge
Chinese Proverb

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With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.
Virtue
Chinese Proverb

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Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
Writers and Writing
Charles Churchill

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Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
Nations
Randolph Churchill

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Courage
Winston Churchill

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