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If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

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To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

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First I was 'angry,' then 'spiritual.' Now I don't know what I am.

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All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.

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Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

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You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.

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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

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Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

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First of all, I don't see America having problems.

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I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.

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You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.

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John F.Kennedy gave probably the greatest inauguration speech ever that first time, but I guarantee you when he first walked out there he was thinking, "Goodness gracious this is big and I better be up to the task."

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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.

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How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.

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First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

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The finest poetry was first experience.

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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

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