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William Hazlitt:One shining quality lends a


One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
by William Hazlitt


Horace Mann:Education alone can conduct us to


Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
by Horace Mann


Seneca:It is the constant fault and inseparable


It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
by Seneca


John F. Kennedy:A nation which has forgotten the


A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insis tupon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten.
by John F. Kennedy


Nagarjuna:This body, full of faults, Has yet one


This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life Depends upon one's actions.
by Nagarjuna


William Shakespeare:Dreams, indeed, are


Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shad
by William Shakespeare


Henry David Thoreau:It is something to be able


It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far moreglorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
by Henry David Thoreau


Henry Ward Beecher:The cynic is one who never


The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
by Henry Ward Beecher


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