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«I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.»
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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About:
Love
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Keywords:
at all,
befall,
befalling,
befalls,
befell,
better,
feel,
get hold,
get hold of,
Good Feeling,
have,
hold,
hold over,
hold still for,
lost,
loved,
most,
never,
sorrow,
sorrowed,
sorrowing,
Than,
Tis,
true,
whatever
«I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.»
Author: Plutarch
(
Author,
Biographer)
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About:
Friends,
Friendship
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Keywords:
better,
change,
Friend,
In the Shadows,
much,
need,
nod,
nodded,
nodding,
nods,
shadow,
shadowed,
shadowing,
that much
«It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(
President)
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About:
Action,
Ambition,
Courage,
Criticism,
Willpower
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Keywords:
achievement,
actually,
again,
again and again,
arena,
at least,
at the best,
at the worst,
bad blood,
belongs,
best-known,
best,
better,
better known,
be all and end all,
blood,
blooded,
cause,
cause of a,
cold,
colder,
coldest,
colds,
comes,
come short,
could,
counts,
credit,
credited,
crediting,
credits,
critic,
daring,
deed,
deeds,
defeat,
devotion,
devotions,
Do,
doer,
does,
done,
dust,
dusted,
dusting,
Dust to Dust,
effort,
end,
end man,
end on,
end point,
enthusiasm,
enthusiasms,
error,
errs,
face,
face up,
fails,
for short,
Get High,
great,
greatly,
high,
Higher And Higher,
higher up,
highs,
High C,
His,
how,
In a,
in a bad way,
in a higher place,
in cold blood,
In the,
in the end,
is not,
know,
knows,
least,
man,
marred,
neither,
never,
Nor,
now and again,
other places,
our critics,
out,
outs,
place,
pointing out,
points,
point after,
point man,
point the way,
shall,
short,
shortcoming,
shortcomings,
shorts,
short I,
souls,
spends,
strive,
strived,
striven,
strives,
strong,
strong point,
stumbles,
sweat,
sweated,
sweating,
sweats,
Them,
there,
there is,
The Best,
The Best Man,
The Count,
The Critic,
The End,
The Great,
The Man,
The Man Who,
the Triumphs,
the very worst,
This is the Place,
those,
timid,
to a higher place,
triumph,
triumphed,
triumphing,
valiantly,
victory,
where,
while,
whiling,
worst,
Worthies,
worthiest,
worthy
«It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
better,
bettered,
bettering,
betters,
deserve,
have,
honoring,
honors,
Than,
Them
«I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Principles,
witty
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Keywords:
anything,
Anything Else,
better,
else,
In the,
like,
no.,
no,
persons,
principles,
Than,
the world,
with,
world
«It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.»
Author: Buddha
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Keywords:
angels,
a thousand,
battled,
battles,
Battle of the,
battling,
better,
conquer,
demons,
heaven,
hell,
taken,
then,
The Demon,
thousand,
victory,
win,
win over
«It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
around,
belong,
belong to,
better,
come around,
doe,
does,
get around to,
lay out,
let,
lie,
neglected,
neglecting,
neglects,
take,
taken over,
taking over,
Than,
WHAT
«I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
As It Happens,
back,
backed up,
backing,
back out,
back to back,
better,
bettered,
bettering,
betters,
find,
from way back,
further,
furthered,
furthering,
furthers,
furthest,
go,
go back,
happened,
Happened before,
I go,
On Our Backs,
take back,
they,
things,
were
«Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
at all,
better,
diamonds,
let,
none,
old,
particular,
Particulars,
secondhand,
The Diamond,
The Diamonds,
too
«It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.»