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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

– Jean de La BruyèreRate it:

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

– SterneRate it:

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

– Henry David ThoreauRate it:

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.

– Henry David ThoreauRate it:

One may dislike something, though it shows the negative attitude but not the detrimental stance. However, it becomes violent that endorses one guilty and culpable.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.

– Vincent Van GoghRate it:

One may hurt and harm, personally; however, cannot deceive and fool easily and longer.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

– Henry Louis MenckenRate it:

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

– Khalil GibranRate it:

One may read thousands of books if it fails to understand; it gains nothing. If understands and avoids to act; it remains useless. However, it is a way of ignorance too

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

One may read thousands of books if it fails to understand; it gains nothing; if understands and avoids, to act; it remains useless. However, it is a way of ignorance too.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

– John WanamakerRate it:

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.

– French ProverbRate it:

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

– Eric HofferRate it:

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

– Max BeerbohmRate it:

One Million years OR One Billion Years- What is the Earth's Age? when we Realize the Truth, we know it is just a Virtual Stage !

– AiR Atman in RaviRate it:

One mind awake can awaken another, The second awake can awaken their next door brother. Three awake can awaken the town By turning the whole place upside down. Many awake can make such a fuss That they finally awaken the rest of us.

– Helen KromerRate it:

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.

– Beilby Porteus, Death, A PoemRate it:

One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.

– Etty HillesumRate it:

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

– Johann von GoetheRate it:

One must attempt to increase whatever weakness there may be in the opponent’s position; or, if there is none, one or more must be created.

– José Raúl CapablancaRate it:

One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves.

– Niccolo Machiavelli, The PrinceRate it:

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

– Anton ChekhovRate it:

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

– Jean CocteauRate it:

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