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When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.


Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
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EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.
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EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite....
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.
YIDDISH PROVERB An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
PROVERB An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment
ELBERT HUBBARD An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
SPANISH PROVERB An ounce of wisdom is worth more than a pound of knowledge.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Better an ounce from the ground than a pound from the roof
THE TALMUD An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
MAHATMA GANDHI When put to the test, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness
ELBERT HUBBARD An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
SPANISH PROVERB An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
MICHAEL KORDA An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
DANISH PROVERB An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
PROVERB An ounce of intuition is worth a pound of tuition.
SOURCE UNKNOWN An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
HENRY DE BRACTON An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
FREDERIC R. MARVIN An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
RUDYARD KIPLING An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.
RICHARD BAXTER An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
ELBERT GREEN HUBBARD An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
ELBERT HUBBARD An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow.
RICHARD BAXTER An ounce of wit is worth a pound of argument
SYDNEY SMITH An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
MICHAEL KORDA An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. - De Legibus, 1240.
HENRY DE BRACTON An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance. - Nolan's / Peter's Placebo.
UNKNOWN An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN An ounce of PREPARATION is better than a ton of SUFFERING.
LORRIN L. LEE An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
THOMAS FULLER An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with
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DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
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JOHNATHAN G. GONZALEZ For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
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I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
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She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
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TURKISH PROVERB A great future starts with what you can see
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played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
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EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be re...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with t...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, an...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to wa...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark wh...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning i...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extrac...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole h...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, the...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manh...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge
EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Arm thyself for the truth!
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every eye looking on finds its own.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; bu...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON No author ever drew a character, consistent to human nature, but what he was forced to ascribe to i...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite....
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON