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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

Life, Strong, Young

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Swami Vivekananda

Travel, Live, Care

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Khalil Gibran

Friend, Through, Sometimes

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

Failure, Live, Win

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
Marilyn Monroe

Alone, Someone, Unhappy

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung

Life, Patience, Happy

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau

Music, Him, Different

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein

Reality, Laws, Refer

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein

Silent, Virtue, Concerned

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
Mahatma Gandhi

Spiritual, Soul, Body

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Franz Schubert

Happy, True, Wife

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin

Remember, Moment, Place

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot

Find, Risk, Possibly

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Muhammad Ali

Fight, Long, Lost

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Abraham Lincoln

Men, Power, Same

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
Audrey Hepburn

Life, Time, Special

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
Muhammad Ali

Home, Nice, Humble

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya Angelou

Women, Men, Lonely

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill

Time, Destiny, Mistake

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, Work, Best

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
Steven Wright

Good, Live, Forever

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.
Dalai Lama

Else, Concerned, Clear

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare

Good, Naughty, Candle

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy

Long, Action, Less

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Ronald Reagan

Purpose, Possible, Existence

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde

Friendship, Best, Laughter

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Important, Talk

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Woman, Become

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Art, Imitates

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William Shakespeare

Life, Honor, Precious

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