Moliere Quotes
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
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The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.
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The person who doubts there is an external world does not need proof: he needs a cure.
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Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.
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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.
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The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.
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Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.
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When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.
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I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
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The spiritual journey, the path of recovery and personal growth, is a detoxification process in which we bring up and out the negative beliefs we have carried with us from the past and that now poison the present.
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I went to a gay bar, they wanted proof of sex so I showed them, they said it wasn't enough.
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Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance.
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Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
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The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it.
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She has the filthiest tongue of any woman in France. Burn her mouth clean.
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Todd and I have a very complementary working style .
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Practicing mindfulness calms down the sympathetic nervous system, so that you are less likely to be thrown into fight-or-flight.11 Learning to observe and tolerate your physical reactions is a prerequisite for safely revisiting the past. If you cannot tolerate what you are feeling right now, opening up the past will only compound the misery and retraumatize you further.12 We can tolerate a great deal of discomfort as long as we stay conscious of the fact that the body’s commotions constantly shift. One moment your chest tightens, but after you take a deep breath and exhale, that feeling softens and you may observe something else, perhaps a tension in your shoulder. Now you can start exploring what happens when you take a deeper breath and notice how your rib cage expands.13 Once you feel calmer and more curious, you can go back to that sensation in your shoulder. You should not be surprised if a memory spontaneously arises in which that shoulder was somehow involved.
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Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
