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• Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.

  Booker T. Washington

  Education, Mind, Littles

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• You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Race, Turkeys

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• A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Forgiveness, Sacrifice, Forgiving

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• Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Democracy, Defeat

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• No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

  Mark Twain

  God, Men, Next

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.

  Immanuel Kant

  Happiness, Thoughtful, Mind

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• You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains that chief of pleasures, the feeling of being pleased with oneself. A man gets an immense amount of satisfaction from the knowledge of having done good work and of having made the best use of his day, and when I am in this state I find that I thoroughly enjoy my rest and even the mildest forms of recreation.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Happiness, Men, Self

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• In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Men, History, Earth

  James Harvey Robinson (1912). “The New History: Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook”

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• The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Men, History, Teach

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• Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. . . . But the tale of history forms a very strong bulwark against the stream of time, and checks in some measure its irresistible flow, so that, of all things done in it, as many as history has taken over it secures and binds together, and does not allow them to slip away into the abyss of oblivion.

  Anna Komnene

  Strong, Taken, History

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• If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.

  Sarah Winnemucca

  Women, Thinking, Justice

  Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1883). “Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims”, p.53, University of Nevada Press

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• Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Office, Charity, Philanthropy

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• To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!

  Laozi

  Leadership, Hate, People

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• Superior leaders get things done with very little motion. They impart instruction not through many words, but through a few deeds. They keep informed about everything but interfere hardly at all. They are catalysts, and though things would not get done as well if they were not there, when they succeed they take no credit. And, because they take no credit, credit never leaves them.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Deeds, Littles

  "Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success" by Jim Clemmer, (p. 137), 1999.

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• Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Past, Complaining

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.678

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• What have I done? What horrid crime committed?
  To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking.

  Colley Cibber

  Life, Crime, Worst

  Colley Cibber (1760). “The careless husband; The rival fools; The lady's last stake; Richard III”, p.334

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• I saw full surely that ere God made us He loved us; which love was never slacked, nor ever shall be. And in this love He hath done all His works; and in this love He hath made all things profitable to us; and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning; but the love wherein He made us was in Him from without beginning: in which love we have our beginning. And all this shall we see in God, without end.

  Julian of Norwich

  Life, Saws, Ends

  "Revelations of Divine Love" by Julian of Norwich, (Ch. 86), c. 1393.

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• There's nothing you can do that can't be done, Nothing you can sing that can't be sung, Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game, It's easy...
  All you need is love.

  John Lennon

  Life, Song, Games

  "Song: All You Need Is Love (Magical Mystery Tour)". July 7, 1967.

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• Unless you can feel when the song is done
  No other is sweet in its rhythm;
  Unless you can feel when left by one
  That all men else go with him.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Song, Sweet

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Woman's Shortcomings”

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• I do not love thee less for what is done,
  And cannot be undone. Thy very weakness
  Hath brought thee nearer to me, and henceforth
  My love will have a sense of pity in it,
  Making it less a worship than before.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Weakness, Worship

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

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• I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.

  Elvin Jones

  Music, People, Jazz

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• I'm sure critics have their purpose, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what he did.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Should Have, Littles

  "The Duke Ellington Reader".

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• All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way.

  Jack Teagarden

  Music, Way, Jazz

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• Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Memorable, Men, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.99

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• When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.

  John A. Macdonald

  Opportunity, Men, Evil

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