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"Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth."
By Sidney Madwed
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"Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous."
By Sir Francis Bacon
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"Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort."
By James Goldsmith
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"Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays."
By Soren Kierkegaard
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"Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks."
By Duchess de Abrantes
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"Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which "bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things," which "thinks no evil.""
By Macduff
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"Prejudice is the reasoning of fools."
By Author Unknown
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"Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt."
By Henry Bolingbroke
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"Pride the first peer and president of hell."
By Daniel Defoe
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"Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy."
By Benjamin Franklin
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"Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages."
By Johnson
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"Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay."
By Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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"Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others."
By Frederick Saunders
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"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful."
By Charles Simmons
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"Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions."
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true."
By D. March
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"Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. "Chance," Pastuer wrote, "favors only the prepared mind." The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know-how, but also by the awareness of social needs."
By Saturday Review
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"People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains."
By G. K. Chesterton
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"People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable."
By Samuel Butler
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"Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both."
By Joseph Wood Krutch
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