He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.
Prepared for the worst, but still praying for the best
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Lil Wayne
In as much time as it takes to smoke a cigarette, a person's life was changed forever.
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Karen McQuestion
How can he not share his newfound joy with his fellow man? And it is joy. There’s a pure kind of joy in the certainty of belief. The certainty that your life has purpose and meaning.
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Nicola Yoon
If you don't know when your good, how can you know when your bad?
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Will Adolphy
Rush-hour on the A rain. A blind man staggers forth, his cane tapping lightlyown the aisle. He leans against the door, raises a violin to chin, and says I’m sorry to bother you, folks. But please. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Just listen. And it kills me, the...
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Ocean Vuong
More Quotes By Plutarch
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. “For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire...
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.
