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• Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.

  Homer

  Literature, Sane

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  Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.

  Sam Houston

  Country, Texas, Natural

  Sam Houston (1940). “The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863”

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• Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

  Guru Nanak

  Kings, Dominion, Ants

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• Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

  Helen Keller

  Respect, Appreciation, Struggle

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Hypnosis

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• I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

  Todd English

  Sports, Food, Cooking

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• I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

  William Blake

  Art, Business, Creativity

  'Jerusalem' (1815) 'Chapter 1' (plate 10, l. 20)

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• Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Motivational, Sports, Boxing

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 17, 2015

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• When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

  Laozi

  Relationship, Respect, Being Yourself

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• The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

  Salvador Dali

  Clever, Flower, Men

  Preface to Pierre Cabanne, Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp (1968)

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• There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

  Charles de Lint

  Joy, Tales, Wells

  "Yarrow: An Autumn Tale". Book by Charles de Lint, 1986.

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• There is no teaching to compare with example.

  Robert Powell

  Wisdom, Teaching, Example

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• Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

  George Eliot

  Lying, Men, Should Have

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.386, Penguin

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• Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

  Marquis de Sade

  Country, Passion, Law

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• Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Shadow, Wipe

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• The worth of a child born and bred in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United States.

  Yakubu Gowon

  Children, Usa, United States

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• Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living acts of a Christian become somehow the acts of Christ.

  Brennan Manning

  Christian, Jesus, Victory

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• When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

  Sydney J. Harris

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• Say thank you! I want to hear you say it now. Out loud. 'Thank you.' You're saying thank you because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that whatever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds. You're saying thank you because you know there's no problem created that can compare to the Creator of all things. Say thank you!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Strong, Eye

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• Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.

  Beth Moore

  God, Christian, Letting Go

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• All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.

  Marie-Marguerite d'Youville

  Happiness, Happy, Faith

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• What are eight million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?

  Teofilo Stevenson

  Love, Money, Patriotic

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• Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience in a studio than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.

  Carl Theodor Dreyer

  Inspiration, Expression, Land

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• I try never to compare myself to other people. I just think this is who I am. You are happier when you think that way.

  Jesy Nelson

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

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• You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities.

  Zig Ziglar

  Accomplishment, Comparing Yourself To Others, Determine

  Ziglar, Zig (1985). “Steps to the Top”, p.13, Pelican Publishing

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