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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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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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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Hate and fear breed a poison in the blood, which if continued, affects eyes, ears, nose and the organs of digestion. Therefore, it is not wise to hear and remember the unkind things others might say about you.
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Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.
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A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
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He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
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This world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.
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Never sign a valentine with your own name.
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Focusing on a shared history of trauma and victimization alleviates their searing sense of isolation, but usually at the price of having to deny their individual differences: Members can belong only if they conform to the common code. Isolating oneself into a narrowly defined victim group promotes a view of others as irrelevant at best and dangerous at worst, which eventually only leads to further alienation. Gangs, extremist political parties, and religious cults may provide solace, but they rarely foster the mental flexibility needed to be fully open to what life has to offer and as such cannot liberate their members from their traumas. Well-functioning people are able to accept individual differences and acknowledge the humanity of others.
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A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly problems. It is almost equally true that a clear and full apprehension of the universal providence of God is the solution of most theological problems.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
