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• In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Country, London, Speak

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• Possess the spirit of independence. The Americans do, and why should not you? Possess the spirit of men, bold and enterprising, fearless and undaunted. Sue for your rights and privileges. Know the reason that you cannot attain them. Weary them with your importunities. You can but die, if you make the attempt; we shall certainly die if you do not. The Americans have practised nothing but head-work these 200 years, and we have done their drudgery. And is it not high time for us to imitate their examples, and practise head-work too, and keep what we have got, and get what we can?

  Maria W. Stewart

  Men, Rights, Years

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• ... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of those around them, employ the chief of them for mere selfish indulgences; thus inflicting as much mischief on themselves, as results to others from their culpable neglect. A great portion of the rich seem to be acting on the principle, that the more God bestows on them, the less are they under obligation to practise any self-denial, in fulfilling his benevolent plan of raising our race to intelligence and holiness.

  Catharine Beecher

  Selfish, Responsibility, Race

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• Practise wonder today - be present, begin again, know nothing, and allow everything to surprise you, inspire you, excite you, entertain you, teach you. Be fully open to life, today, and let yourself live wonder-fully.

  Robert Holden

  Life, Inspire, Today

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• Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practise toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Summer, Sports, Spring

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• All live by seeming.
  The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier
  Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming;
  The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier
  Will eke with it his service.--All admit it,
  All practise it; and he who is content
  With showing what he is, shall have small credit
  In church, or camp, or state.--So wags the world.

  Walter Scott

  Gay, Land, Hypocrisy

  sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) (1862). “The Waverley novels. 25 vols.”, p.260

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• A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Wise, Simplicity, Mind

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• Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it. Science is an art form and not a philosophical method. The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. ... Every time we introduce a new tool, it always leads to new and unexpected discoveries, because Nature's imagination is richer than ours.

  Freeman Dyson

  Nature, Art, Philosophy

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• From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.

  Jimmy Connors

  Different, Half, Way

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• There is a quiet, open place in the depths of the mind, to which we can go many times in the day and lift up our soul in praise, thankfulness and conscious unity. With practise this God-ward turn of the mind becomes an almost constant direction, underlying all our other activities.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Soul, Mind, Unity

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• Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Hopeful, Substance

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Mirrors, Opposites

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1965). “Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)”, p.130, Univ of California Press

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• It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Artist, World

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• One day you too may experience what I have experienced. So right away go and practise.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  One Day, May

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• Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Believe, Self, Denial

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.101

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• There are but three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the warrior and the poet. To know, to kill and to create. The rest of mankind may be taxed and drudged, they are born for the stable, that is to say, to practise what they call professions.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Warrior, Three, May

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• If you want to be happy, practise it every day

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Want, Want To Be Happy, Ifs

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• I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

  Wayne McGregor

  Mistake, Important, Pieces

  "Wayne McGregor: Zen and the art of dance". Interview with Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2009.

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• Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Indulge In, Vices

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• Give me simplicity, that I may live,
  So live and like, that I may know Thy ways,
  Know them and practise them: then shall I give
  For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.

  George Herbert

  Life, Giving, Simplicity

  George Herbert (1709). “The temple, sacred poems and private ejaculations. [With] The synagogue”, p.179

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• Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Law, Bars

  Woodrow Wilson (1969). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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