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• Be carefree yet careful: While you should work on overcoming unnecessary worrying, have a healthy fear of danger and sensibly guard yourself from harm. Overcoming worry does not mean putting yourself in danger, but in having a calm attitude in dealing with difficulties and accepting what cannot be changed.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Attitude, Mean, Worry

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• Grandfather says that when your friends die you must not cry. You must not hurt anybody or do harm to anyone. You must not fight. Do right always. It will give you satisfaction in life.

  Wovoka

  Hurt, Native American, Fighting

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• When there is money in your hand and not in your heart, it will not harm you even if it is a lot; and when it is in your heart, it will harm you even if there is none in your hands.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Heart, Hands, Libertarian

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• There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.

  Linus Pauling

  Nuclear, Safe, Radiation

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• By any reasonable standard of proof, the combination of human epidemiology and track-analysis demonstrates that there is no threshold dose or dose-rate below which "repair" invariably prevents health harm.

  John Gofman

  Epidemiology, Track, Analysis

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• O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dream, Art, Men

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• The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Dwarves, Together

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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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• Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.

  Carl Jung

  Taken, Science, Perfect

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• Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral.

  Nhat Hanh

  Animal, Plant, Minerals

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• When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Doors, Bird

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• Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Taken, Opinion, Complaints

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• Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Taken, Complaining, Complaints

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.

  William Shakespeare

  Hail, Masters, Judas

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.692, BookCaps Study Guides

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• At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Character, Past, Years

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.

  Thomas Tusser

  August, Dry, Harvest

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• The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

  John Donne

  Doe, Fleas, Ethics

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.340, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

  John Heywood

  Heart, Thinking, Tongue

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• There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.

  Plutarch

  Strong, Wine, Men

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• To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Irreparable Harm, Quality

  Interview with John Richardson, December 1, 1957.

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• False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

  Hesiod

  Men, Literature, Poverty

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• There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole mental development is cramped and their reason cowed, by the fear of heresy.

  John Stuart Mill

  Speech, Done, Development

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “On Liberty”, p.61

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• This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.

  Ralph Nader

  Waste, Dollars, Environment

  "Cupid's To Blame For Washington Love Fest" by Bill Schneider, www.cnn.com. February 14, 1997.

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• There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.

  Phoebe Cary

  Eye, Black, Half

  Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.90

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• Just think you are the greatest. Where's the harm in thinking like that? It is not for pride you do it, but for bringing the best out of you. There is nothing wrong.

  Meher Baba

  Pride, Thinking

  Meher Baba (1972). “The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba”

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