"It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way."
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"To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship."
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"Tomorrow will give us something to think about"
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"What was freely given to me, I freely give."
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"Love and this close-knit family structure really helped to give me the confidence. To know that you have family to go back to is a help. It doesn't always happen biologically. Sometimes God gives you family in other forms, but I was very blessed. I have a very strong biological family."
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"seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space"
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"Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell."
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"The best gift you can give yourself is an open mind."
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"Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit."
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"It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret."
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"Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it."
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"It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself."
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"The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation."
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"Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves."
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"Most women are far more intelligent than people give them credit for."
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"They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the term 'conviction politician'."
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"I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away."
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"But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them."
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"When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not interested in doing that, maybe because they're writing for a readership as opposed to an audience, or because they see poetry as a very private art."
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"Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens to be scrubbing a floor or running a corporation."
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