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When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated

Thomas Jefferson

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

Samuel Johnson

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Elsa Schiaparelli

Avarice and luxury, those pests which have ever been the ruin of every great state.

Titus Livy

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh

Durkheim

such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges.

Tom Watson

such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges..

Tom Watson

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Iris Murdoch

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Robert Burton

Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.

Pien Ch\'Iao

The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of our great men.

Captain J. A. Hatfield

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Washington Irving

Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.

Smiley Blanton

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

Frank Lloyd Wright

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

Arthur Schopenhauer

Simplicity is the nature of great souls.

Papa Ramadas

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

James Allen

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

Andrew Marvell

Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires.

FranÁois de la Rochefoucauld

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Frederick Douglas

It is the conduct of any man to struggle and fall; it is the conduct of great men to rise and soar.

Robert Marshall

It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.

St. Francois de Sales

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

Ann Landers

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

Vincent Van Gogh

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence

Bruce Springsteen

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