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“No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may retain entirely unaffected for the better.”
William James quotes (American Philosopher and Psychologist, leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism, 1842-1910)
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“A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes (English lyrical Poet, Critic and Philosopher. 1772-1834)

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“Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life”
Akhenaton quotes (King of Egypt, 14th century BC)
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“It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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“One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth, in contrast to trivialities where opposites are obviously absurd”
Niels Bohr quotes (Danish Physicist, first to apply the quantum theory.Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922. 1885-1962)
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“How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)
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“A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)
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“It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.”
Aristotle quotes (Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC)
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“In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.”
George Eliot quotes (English Victorian Novelist. Pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880)

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