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“Charles Francis Adams was singular for mental poise absence of self-assertion or self-consciousness the faculty of standing apart without seeming aware that he was alone a balance of mind and te...”
“He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.”
“I don't understand why when I wish for happiness it inevitably rains. However, I do tend to find myself grateful for sunlight once the storm ceases.”
“Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller than his brethren by the breadth of a human fingernail.”
“Most moms and dads think they are either the best or the worst parents in the world. Both are wrong.”
“Neither compares nor competes.”
“If personality expresses itself by acts of discrimination, and discrimination, besides being taboo, has no material to work on, what becomes of personality? It shrinks, it atrophies, it dies.”
“All the problems of the nation are nothing, in comparison to the might of God”
“Fighting external monsters is easy in comparison to how we fight those within us.”
“No one is perfect no matter how hard they pretend they are, so dont compare yourself to them, Will says.”
“Comparison is the most abused intellectual tool of all. We compare men and women, man and God, good and bad, equal and unequal, forgetting that this sin only results in a punishment so severe that ...”
“Run your own race. Fear creeps in when we compare ourselves too much with others.”
“Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.”
“Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison.”
“The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.”
“Comparisons are odious.”
“Some say compared to Bononcini That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle: Strange all this difference should be 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tw...”
“The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.”
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”
“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.”
