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• Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hands, People, Intellectual

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.341, Oxford University Press

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• Let us take a little time to meditate, to think of what we can do to improve our lives and to become better examples of what a Latter-day Saint should be.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Thinking, Example, Saint

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• A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.

  Christian D. Larson

  Men, Creative, Endurance

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• No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Saint, Communism, Communist

  Ezra Taft Benson (1964). “Title of liberty”

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• Where two or three are met together, the prayer of one strikes fire from the soul of another; and the latter in his turn leads the way to nobler heights of devotion. And lo! as their joy increases, there is One in their midst whom they all recognize and cling to. He was there before, but it is only when their hearts begin to burn that they recognize Him; and in a true sense they may be said to bring Him there.

  James Stalker

  Prayer, Heart, Fire

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• In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than to attempt the overthrow of the stronger in the belief that the latter's defeat will automatically involve the collapse of the others.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Army, Stronger

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• Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams. Don't think you have to wait for the latter to do the former.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jul 13, 2014

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• Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.

  Valerie Solanas

  Lying, Philosophical, Self

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• Basic research is not the same as development. A crash programme for the latter may be successful; but for the former it is like trying to make nine women pregnant at once in the hope of getting a baby in a month's time.

  Richard Doll

  Baby, Successful, Trying

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• The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Lying, Science

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.4, Cambridge University Press

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• Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Body, Ruins

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Thinking, May, Firsts

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• Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged - the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.

  Plautus

  Ears, Tongue, Should

  "Pseudolus". I. 5. 12,

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• Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Vanity, Nerves, Opinion

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• The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Thinking, Men, Expression

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• Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.

  George Washington

  Men, Mind, Faces

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.246

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• The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Sheep, Mountain, Valleys

  1829 TheMisfortunes of Elphin,'TheWar-Song of DinasVawr'.

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• The reward of a successful collaboration is a thing that cannot be produced by either of the parties working alone. It is akin to the benefits of sex with a partner, as opposed to masturbation. The latter is fun, but you show me anyone who has gotten a baby from playing with him or herself, and I'll show you an ugly baby, with just a whole bunch of knuckles.

  Harlan Ellison

  Baby, Sex, Fun

  Harlan Ellison (1975). “Partners in Wonder”

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• The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Thinking, Different

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Occupation, Want

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• Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.

  Eleanora Duse

  Teacher, Growth, Sorrow

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• I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the former than to copy the latter; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of art for art's sake.

  Gustave Courbet

  Art, Copying, Prejudice

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• I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn.

  Robert Lowell

  Swimming, August, Air

  'Mr Edwards and the Spider' (1950)

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• Hope, and fear. Twin forces that tugged at us first in one direction and then in another, and which was the stronger no one could say. Of the latter we never spoke, but it was always with us. Fear, constant companion of the peasant. Hunger, ever at hand to jog his elbow should he relax. Despair, ready to engulf him should he falter. Fear; fear of the dark future; fear of the sharpness of hunger; fear of the blackness of death.

  Kamala Markandaya

  Dark, One Direction, Hands

  Kamala Markandaya (2000). “Nectar in a sieve and related readings”

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• There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting proportionately as the latter increase.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Interesting, Copying, Increase

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