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We ought never to mock the wretched, for who can be sure of being always happy?

– La FontaineRate it:

We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.

– C. C. ColtonRate it:

We ought not to focus on the price of achieving freedom, but on its value and the brightest future that’s awaiting us.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them.

– Richard CecilRate it:

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.

– George WashingtonRate it:

We ought to aim for humanity above exploitation, no matter which environment you found yourself in; humanity should be your motto in life.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

– D. H. LawrenceRate it:

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

– Marcus Aelius AureliusRate it:

We ought to practice democracy in the correct manner, but not to impose it to those who are still adapting to the correct leadership within their states.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the teacher of all truth.

– Charles KingsleyRate it:

We ought to understand the personalities and motives of an individual before we come to judge him.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.

– Mother TeresaRate it:

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

– Mother TeresaRate it:

We over-praise leaders when organizations succeed and over-blame them when organizations fail. Success or failure depends on the environment as much as or even more than the leader. Effective leaders navigate and influence the environment to enable key success factors for their followers

– Med JonesRate it:

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.

– Mark TwainRate it:

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

– Jennie Jerome ChurchillRate it:

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - gunpowder and romantic love.

– Andre MauroisRate it:

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

– Aldous HuxleyRate it:

We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

– Lewis ThomasRate it:

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

– John W. GardnerRate it:

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

– Don MarquisRate it:

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

– La BruyereRate it:

We permit Limitations to Limit us, instead of Limiting our Limitations.

– RVMRate it:

We played on the swing, that was when I roared with laughter, the fall was so wonderful! Indeed! I told the sisters about it so many times yesterday that they got quite fed up, but I could go on telling it masses of times ... What weather we've had! One could simply shout with joy.

– Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of RussiaRate it:

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