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Marcus Aurelius

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ONE
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
You don't know, oh, oh
You don't know you're beautiful.
ONE DIRECTION
Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.
KRS-ONE
We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums.
DAY ONE
If we could only have this life for one more day. If we could only turn back time. You know I'll be ...
ONE DIRECTION
You know I'll be
Your Life
Your Voice
Your Reason To Be
My Love
My Heart...
ONE DIRECTION
do not cry , you can focus the light spot with the eyes , the eyes of your heart . smile
MISTER ONE
Everyone loves the David and Goliath story, but if Goliath had slain David, it'd never have made the...
DAY ONE
I've been coming here since Day One, ... Watching games at home is no fun. It's boring. Here, we get...
DAY ONE
If it was $10 a gallon, I'd be buying it today since you can't get it anywhere else,
DAY ONE
Get every drop in there. Can't lose none,
DAY ONE
big, medium and small.
DAY ONE
Yes, look, I don't think I can explain this any better to you, but we don't want to ... Well, I gues...
DAY ONE
You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up...
ONE DIRECTION
Tell me I'm a screwed up mess, that I never listen, listen. Tell me you don't want my kiss, that ...
ONE DIRECTION
You're impossible to resist, but I wouldn't bet your heart on it. It's like I'm finally awake, and...
ONE DIRECTION
Baby you light up my world like nobody else. The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed. An...
ONE DIRECTION
Why did the mushroom go to the party?
Because he's a fungi!
ONE DIRECTION
Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN
I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors.
DEYTH BANGER
Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
SHOLEM ASCH
I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.
ANNE FRANK
I don't think so, therefore I'm probably not.
ALAN SMITHEE
Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion.
SPANISH PROVERB
Guests and fish start to stink after two days.
SPANISH PROVERB
Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.
BRIAN TRACY
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you will land among the stars.
LES BROWN
If the wind stops, row!
POLISH PROVERB
Never seek the wind in the field. It is useless to try and find what is gone.
POLISH PROVERB
Never overlook wallflower at dance; may be dandelion in grass.
CONFUCIOUS
No man ever repented on his deathbed of being a Christian.
HANNAH MOORE
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR
To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work is as impossible as i...
A.P. GOUTHEY
Have less. Do less. Be more.
ABOODI SHABY
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important th...
AMBROSE REDMOON
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resour...
GOLDA MEIR
He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool. Shun him. He who knows not and knows tha...
ARAB PROVERB
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.
ARAB PROVERB
Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.
GOETHE
Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
GOETHE
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
GOETHE
Knowing is not enough; We must Apply. Willing is not enough; We must Do.
GOETHE
Whatever you do, or dream, begin it now.. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now...
GOETHE
If you treat a man as he is, he will remain as he is; if you treat him as he ought to be and could b...
GOETHE
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
FRENCH PROVERB
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
FRENCH PROVERB
I value all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.
JOHN WESLEY
The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have th...
SAADI
We shouldn't deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the ...
CHARLES SWINDOLL
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
ROBERT FULGHUM
When an old man dies, a library burns down.
AFRICAN PROVERB
Give a man a fish and he won't starve for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he won't starve for his...
AFRICAN PROVERB
A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor.
AFRICAN PROVERB
May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you are dead.
IRISH PROVERB
Wisdom is a comb given to a man once he is bald.
IRISH PROVERB
Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand ...
PETER MARSHALL
Don't let anybody walk trough your mind with dirty feet.
GANDHI
We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob...
WILLIAM BOOTH
Everything that can be counted doesn't necessarily count; everything that counts can't necessarily b...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Sit next to a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. Sit on a red-hot stove for a minute,...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
I never went to bed with an ugly woman; woke up with a few.
UNKNOWN
A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot.
GERMAN PROVERB
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
LATIN PROVERB
The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rub...
YAKOV SMIRNOFF
The noblest revenge is to forgive.
THOMAS FULLER
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who...
INDIRA GANDHI
Choose a job you like and you will never have to work a day of your life.
CONFUCIUS
God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Seven sins of life: Politics without principle. Commerce without morality. Wealth without work. Educ...
MAHATMA GANDHI
Love the sinner but hate the sin.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.
CONFUCIUS
Don't seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise: seek what they sought.
BASHO
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to rea...
BENJAMIN MAYS
Passion: A feeling you feel when you feel a feeling you've never felt before.
ANDREW EDGERTON
If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.
ANDREW MASON
To live your life to the fullest, you've got to be a master of economics...after all, time's demand ...
ANDY MCINTOSH
We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children.
ANCIENT PROVERB
Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy but socially dead.
ANAMANIACS
Are you living for the things you are praying for?
AUSTIN PHELPS
The world is a great big book, of which those who never travel read only one page.
AUGUSTINE
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
AUGUST STRINDBERG
There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about.
ASHLEY BRILLIANT
A politician will stand for what he thinks people will fall for.
ANON
I am the master of my unspoken words, and a slave to those that should have remained unspoken.
ANON
In life, what happens to you isn't as important as what happens in you.
ANON
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under socialism it's just the opposite.
ANON
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You have got to set your self on fire for it.
ANON
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to... But be respected, that is essential.
ANNA GOULD
Make your life a mission, not an intermission.
ARNOLD GLASGOW
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
ANTISTHENES
There is only on thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from expe...
ARCHIBALD MCLEISH
Don't stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.
ARABIC PROVERB
Who got it, did get it; and who left it, did regret it.
ALGERIAN PROVERB
Do bad and remember, do good and forget.
ALGERIAN PROVERB
When dogs leap onto your bed, it's because they adore being with you. When cats leap onto your bed, ...
ALISHA EVERETT
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
HARVEY MACKAY
He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light.
ARABIAN PROVERB
Church is the only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
WILLIAM TEMPLE

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Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily
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How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with th...
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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams
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Nothing in nature is evil.
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It certainly is uncomfortable for everybody. It's somewhat of an anomaly. We're still in August but ...
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I think if we had the same magnitude of devastation that they had, we would be very much challenged ...
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If it does not fit leave it, if it is not true do not say it.
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To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice
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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee
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The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere
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Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing
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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
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Your face is black, your hair like flame, And one eye's damaged, one foot lame: If, still, you're qu...
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You ask me, Linus what my field out at Nomentum is to yield? Well this it yields to me: the view, my...
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To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize
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The height of farce it is, I ween, To be so perfumed and anointed, And when one's appetite's most ke...
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking
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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys
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Why do you wrap up your neck in a woolen muffler when you are going to recite? The muffler would be ...
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I could do without your face, Chloe, and without your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and to s...
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