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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? – Evelyn Waugh	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. – Sallust, The War with Catiline	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. – George Orwell	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We cannot be sure that we have something to live for unless we are ready to die for it. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged. – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. – Edward Abbey	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary. – Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves. – E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. – Sir Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 13 years ago
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. – Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me. – Epictetus	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within us—it simply reveals what we are made of already. – Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, September 10	added by anonymous 13 years ago
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. – George Orwell, (attributed)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it. – Daniel Webster	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness. – Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When the student is ready. . . the lesson appears. – Gene Oliver	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window. – Montesquieu	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the "innocence of eye" that means so much to the painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new; to see traits and characteristics as though each were new-minted from the hand of God instead of sorting them quickly into dusty categories and pigeon-holing them without wonder or surprise; to feel situations so immediately and keenly that the word "trite" has hardly any meaning for him; and always to see "the correspondences between things" of which Aristotle spoke two thousand years ago. – Dorothea Brande	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action. – Napoleon Hill	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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