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Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner. Hugh Blair | top
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Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness. David Bohm | top
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One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness. David Bohm | top
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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness. George Borrow | top
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You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength. Charlotte Bronte | top
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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. Thomas Carlyle | top
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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. Anton Chekhov | top
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Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. Lord Chesterfield | top
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble. Agatha Christie | top
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The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another. Adam Clarke | top
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When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness. Andrew Cohen | top
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. Cyril Connolly | top
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Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect. Pierre Corneille | top
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Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron. Ezra Cornell | top
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That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history. Thomas Howard | top
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Success demands singleness of purpose. Vince Lombardi | top
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Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them. Maria Monk | top
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness. Michel de Montaigne | top
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Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty. Phaedrus | top
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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. Leo Rosten | top
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Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. Johann G. Seume | top
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Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell. Beatrice Potter Webb | top
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The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes. Shirley Williams | top
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Virginia Woolf | top
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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. William Wordsworth | top
