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Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare

Love, Trust, Wrong

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington

Confidence, Give, Before

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi

Faith, Humanity, Become

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan

Government, Moving, Short

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein

Social, Opinions, Capable

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Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Margaret Mead

Change, Caring, Indeed

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy

Society, Help, Rich

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers

Men, Learn, Themselves

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln

Experience, Virtues, Vices

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.
Richard M. DeVos

Hope, Positive, Smile

Listen to many, speak to a few.
William Shakespeare

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams

Words, Actions, Correspond

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill

Human, Conflict, Owed

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, True, Everyone

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain

Good, Put, Example

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
Thomas Jefferson

Polite, Intimate

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Benjamin Franklin

Courage, Enough, Resolution

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck

Great, Teacher, Mind

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good, Words, Speak

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William Shakespeare

Give, Voice, Thy

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Tony Robbins

Life, Power, Focus

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy

History, Freedom, Long

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe

Freedom, Stars, Rights

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon Hill

Made, Before, Light

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Henry Ford

Work, Thinking, Why

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
Rita Rudner

Love, Husband, Before

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle

Life, Great, Wise

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
Thomas Sowell

After, Big, Might

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Benjamin Franklin

Die, Thousand, Eating

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