The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and often acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy.
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If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.
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But then, Wagner added, the adolescent is also far more developed than the newborn and yet society values both lives equally. The burden for pro-choice advocates, therefore, is to demonstrate that the change a human undergoes as she develops from a fetus to a newborn [is] so different from all future developments that it alters her ontological status entirely. They must also show that the value of a human being depends on the characteristics that he or she acquires rather than on the kind of thing that it is.
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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.
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Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
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He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.
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Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices
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Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.
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For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.
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Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
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There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.
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From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
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As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.
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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
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A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to spea...
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Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.
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