The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... What is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.
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See, Winter comes to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train, Vapors, and clouds, and storms.
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In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old: Be not the first by whome the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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Do something every day that you don't want to do this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it's only for wallowing in.
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Rule three hundred of obscure leadership if it's your idea, you get to implement it.
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Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. I think we should follow a simple rule if we can take the worst, take the risk.
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Here's a rule I recommend Never practice two vices at once.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
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For I who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. POPE: Satire ii., Line 159. So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
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While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense.. These are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.
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The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
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Courage, her mother had once told her, was not simply the fact that you weren't scared of anything. It was being scared, and doing whatever it was anyway. Courage was dealing with your fears, and not letting them rule you.
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To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake.
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Angel of God, my guardian dear To whom God's love commits me here Ever this day be at my side, To light and guard, to rule and guide.
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.. What are numbers knit By force or custom? Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of himself; in it Must be supreme, establishing his throne On vanquished will, quelling the anarchy Of hopes and fears, being himself alone.
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