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• There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  History, Anecdotes, Attention

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Interesting, Attention, Finite

  "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.

  E. W. Howe

  Common Sense, Results, Opposition

  Sinner Sermons (p. 7)

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• With all thy getting, get understanding, is the banner under which these Forbes editorials have appeared since the first issue of the publication. We have no illusions about what great wealth can do and what it cannot do. We believe in the worthwhileness of striving by all worthy means to attain success and to attain wealth. Simply because we are convinced that no amount of money is worth the sacrifice of one's better instincts, of one's self-respect-of one's soul, if you wish-simply because we are convinced that riches not gained legitimately and decently are not worth having.

  B. C. Forbes

  Believe, Mean, Sacrifice

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• It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Mind, Proof, Distinguished

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.

  Philip Sidney

  Wisdom

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• When custom has made familiar the charms that are most attractive, when youthful freshness has died away, and with the brightness of domestic life more and more shadows have mingled, then ... and not till then, can the wife say of the husband, "He is worthy of love;" then, first, the husband say of the wife, "She blooms in imperishable beauty.

  Timothy Shay Arthur

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  Timothy Shay Arthur (1888). “The Wedding Guest: a Friend of the Bride and Bridegroom”

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• To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

  Arthur Helps

  Thinking, Improvement, Aspire

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• It was there [Dijon], I now understand, that I started to grow up, to study, to make love, to eat and drink, to be me and not what I was expected to be. It was there that I learned it is blessed to receive, as well as that every human being, no matter how base, is worthy of my respect and even my envy because he knows something that I may never be old or wise or kind or tender enough to know.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Wise, Growing Up, Blessed

  M.F.K. Fisher (1992). “Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living.

  Prudentius

  Virtue

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• There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.

  Emile Durkheim

  Character, Names, Historical

  Emile Durkheim (2014). “The Rules of Sociological Method: And Selected Texts on Sociology and its Method”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• none but the unhappy are worthy of friends; if your soul had never suffered never could you have entered mine.

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Friends, Soul, Suffering

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• For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Laughter, Differences, Public Opinion

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• What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent, from which all truth proceeds, without which there is no truth?

  Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

  God, Men, Self

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• A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.

  James A. Garfield

  War, Fate, Jewels

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1”, p.29, Best Books on

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• Every individual should have a purpose in life which is worthy of intense effort-and constantly work toward the definite goal ahead.

  Roderick E. Stevens

  Should Have, Goal, Effort

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• I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Son, Ugly

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• Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Needs, Littles, Reminders

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mistake, Community, Blame

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• We are all born worthy. Worthy of love, worthy of success.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Born, Worthy Of Love

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• You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ignorance, Knowing, Opposites

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• The divine within you is stronger than anything that is without you. Therefore, be not afraid of anything. Rely on your own Inner Self, the Divinity within you. Tap the source through looking within. Improve yourself. Build your character. Purify the heart. Develop the divine virtues. Eradicate evil traits. Conquer all that is base in you. Endeavor to attain all that is worthy and noble. Make the lower nature the servant of the higher through discipline, Tapas, self-restraint and meditation. This is the beginning of your freedom.

  Sivananda

  Character, Heart, Self

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• How worthy it is to remember former benefits when we come to beg for new.

  Stephen Charnock

  Benefits, Remember, Former

  Stephen Charnock (1874). “Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God”, p.277

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• In the nature of our existence, we must act to achieve values. And in order to act appropriately, we need to value the beneficiary of our actions. In order to seek values, we must consider ourselves worthy of enjoying them. In order to fight for our happiness, we must consider ourselves worthy of happiness.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Fighting, Order, Needs

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Littles, Satire

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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