"Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings."
-Lord Chesterfield
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"If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.“
-Lord Chesterfield
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"In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool."
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"Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded."
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"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it."
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"Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
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"Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison."
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"There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface."
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"You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear."
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"I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context."
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"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."
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"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
-John B. S. Haldane
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"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."
-Lionel Richie
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