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To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can not, you do the next best thing. You back up but you do not give up.

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I am going to show everybody, I am going to work hard to get better and better.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you are going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

I did my best, and God did the rest.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man success in life.

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it are not gout.

Proving I am a good mother is the one achievement I am most proud of. It is brought out the best in me.

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips! Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.