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A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. – Robert Burton

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

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I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together. – Robert Burton

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Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement. – George M. Adams

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. – Johann von Goethe

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I dont care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause. – Source Unknown

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I believe that any mans life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living. – Booker T. Washington

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My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldnt be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead. – Nicole Kidman

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It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think. РRen̩ Descartes, Discourse on the Method, 1637 (translated)

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