There is such thing as a man being too proud to fight.

- President Wilson, Speech 1915 -

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For a fighter the fight itself is victory for he takes delight in it alone.

- Mahatma Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa -

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The fact is, the moment financial stability is assured, spiritual bankruptcy is also assured.

- MahatmaGandhi, 70th.Birthday Volume -

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What's is done is done.

- Shakespeare, Hamlet -

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Public credit means the contracting of debts which a nation never can pay.

- W.Cobbett, Advice to Young Men -

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A burnt child dreads the fire.

- Ben Johnson -

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Better a little fire that warms than a big one that burns.

- John Ray -

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It is only those who possess firmness who can possess true gentleness.

- Law Rochefoucauld, Maxim -

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

- Napolean -

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The imperial ensign, which full high advanced, Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind.

- Milton, Paradise Lost -

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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

- Burke, Reflections on the Revolution -

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One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey than twenty casks of vinegar.

- Henry IV of France -

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It is easy to flatter, it harder to praise.

- John Paul Richter -

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The word, the flesh, and the devil.

- Book of Common Prayer -

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The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

- New Testament, Mathew -

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What we find the least of in flirtation is love.

- Milton, Paradise Lost -

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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

- Gray -

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Let us crown ourselves with rosebunds before they be withered.

- Wisdom of Soloman -

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But I will woo the dainty rose, the queen of every one.

- Hood, Flower -

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The fly sat upon the axle-tee to the chariot wheel, said, "What a dust do I raise !".

- Francis Bacon, Essays -

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