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• Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.

  Epictetus

  Coping, Lost, Difficulty

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• If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

  Aristotle

  Work, Men, Insolent

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3164, Delphi Classics

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• A mission is not just a casual thing-it is not an alternative program in the Church. Neither is a mission a matter of choice any more than tithing is a choice, any more than sacrament meeting is a choice, any more than the Word of Wisdom is a choice. Of course, we have our free agency, and the Lord has given us choices. We can do as we please. We can go on a mission or we can remain home. But every normal young man is as much obligated to go on a mission as he is to pay his tithing, attend his meetings, keep the Sabbath day holy, and keep his life spotless and clean.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Home, Men, Agency

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• In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life, concerning the bounds of duty, the questions cannot, by any means, be decided with greater certainty, than by ascertaining, on any side, the true interests of mankind. If any false opinion, embraced from appearances, has been found to prevail; as soon as farther experience and sounder reasoning have given us juster notions of human affairs, we retract our first sentiment, and adjust anew the boundaries of moral good and evil.

  David Hume

  Determination, Philosophy, Mean

  David Hume (2010). “Moral and Political Philosophy”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• I've been given this blessing, which is my granddaughter. You're no longer just you. You suddenly fit into the chest of drawers of life.

  Joanna Lumley

  Blessing, Granddaughter, Fit

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• Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.

  Tom Stoppard

  Gone, Irony, Talent

  "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead". Book by Tom Stoppard, www.goodreads.com. 1966.

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• The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love.

  Pope Gregory I

  Greatness, Saint, Contemplation

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• He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

  George Eliot

  Appreciation, Men, Careers

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.107, Penguin

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• The fruit of our labors is sweet when the work is consecrated to God. But we have to be able to weather the conditions - the winds, the rain or the drought, the brilliant sun and sometimes the bitter cold. Sometimes our work needs to be directed at improving our ground rather than excusing our own harvests because the place we have been given is a little hard; there are too many rocks, too many hills, too little top soil. If we focus on where we are instead of what we can do with our plot, we will find our efforts significantly diminished.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Sweet, Work, Rain

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• Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Christian, Men, Giving

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• The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.

  Ayn Rand

  Mother, Children, Passion

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.745, Hamilton Books

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• You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Rejection, Mind

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• At the creation of man and woman, unity for them in marriage was not given as hope; it was a command! 'Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh

  Henry B. Eyring

  Marriage, Mother, Father

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• I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.

  Charles Tupper

  Education, Teacher, School

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• Make no man your friend before inquiring how he has used his former friends; for you must expect him to treat you as he has treated them. Be slow to give your friendship, but when you have given it, strive to make it lasting; for it is as reprehensible to make many changes in one's associates as to have no friends at all. Neither test your friends to your own injury nor be willing to forego a test of your companions.

  Isocrates

  Friendship, Men, Giving

  "Complete Works of Isocrates".

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• Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.

  Laozi

  Strength, Truth, Heart

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• Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.

  Walter Scott

  Strength, Lines, Lofty

  Walter Scott, James Reed (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.70, Psychology Press

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• Everything is given by God. All talent, creativity, ability, insight, and strength comes from him. In our own strength we can do nothing.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Strength, Creativity, Talent

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• There is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance. . . . "Look to God and live." This is the wonderful promise given so often in the scriptures. . . . Our capacity to see and comprehend is increased only in proportion to our willingness to look. God becomes more approachable as we look to him.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Strength, Promise, Comfort

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• A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Principles, World

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• A young boy shouldn't be given up for hopeless just because he's lazy, surly, and good for nothing. Don't be discouraged by those things - maybe he's just trying to be like his daddy.

  Gracie Allen

  Funny, Boys, Daddy

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• Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

  Tacitus

  Nature, Freedom, Animal

  "Annals". Book by Tacitus, IV. 17,

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• How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave.

  Jeremy Bentham

  House, Liberty, Purpose

  Jeremy Bentham (1844). “Benthamiana: Or Select Extracts from the Works of Jeremy Bentham. With an Outline of His Opinions on the Principal Subjects Discussed in His Works”, p.95

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• Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man makes a wheelbarrow, or a book, or a picture, he has a moral right to that particular wheelbarrow, or book, or picture, but no right to ask that others be prevented from making similar things. Such a prohibition, though given for the purpose of stimulating discovery and invention, really in the long run operates as a check upon them.

  Henry George

  Running, Book, Men

  Henry George (1916). “Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; the Remedy”

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• No matter who you are, no matter what greatness you've achieved in your life or what gifts you've given to the rest of humanity, if you criticize Israel, you must expect to become persona non grata. You should expect an utter onslaught of attacks.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Greatness, Israel, Humanity

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