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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Order
Henry Brooks Adams

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Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
Faults
Joseph Addison

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Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Originality
Aesop

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Adversity
Aesop

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Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
Safety
Aesop

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We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Enemies
Aesop

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We would often be sorry if our wishes were granted.
Wish and Wishing
Aesop

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Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Courage
Vittorio, Conte Di Alfieri

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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
Anger
William R. Alger

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Knute Rockne liked bad loser. He said good losers lose too often.
Losers and Losing
George E. Allen

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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Flattery
Minna Antrim

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Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.
Enthusiasm
Minna Antrim

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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
Fame
W. H. Auden

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Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
Argument
Auson

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.
Success
Dr. Marcus Bach

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The worst men often give the best advice.
Advice
Philip James Bailey

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The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
Ideals and Idealism
Stanley Baldwin

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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Power
Honore De Balzac

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Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely.
Men and Women
Basta

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Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.
Decisions
Henri Becquerel

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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Joy
Henry Ward Beecher

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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
Intolerance
Henry Ward Beecher

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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
Difficulties
Henry Ward Beecher

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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Books - Classics
Alan Bennett

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
Kindness
William John Bennett

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