Famous Quotes by Famous Author's

Famous Quotes by Famous Author's

Abraham Lincoln Quotes and Quotations I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. - Abraham Lincoln | Ability and Achievement Quotes

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation. - Abraham Lincoln | Adversity Quotes

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. - Abraham Lincoln | Advertising Quotes

If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully, - Abraham Lincoln | America and Americans Quotes

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. - Abraham Lincoln | Critics and Criticism Quotes

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. - Abraham Lincoln | Democracy Quotes

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. - Abraham Lincoln | Family and Ancestry Quotes

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured. - Abraham Lincoln | The Future Quotes

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. - Abraham Lincoln | Goals and Ambition Quotes

We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side. - Abraham Lincoln | God Quotes

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. - Abraham Lincoln | Government and Rule Quotes

While the people retain their virtue and vigilence, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years. - Abraham Lincoln | Government and Rule Quotes

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. - Abraham Lincoln | Government and Rule Quotes

Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence? - Abraham Lincoln | Government and Rule Quotes

The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities. - Abraham Lincoln | Government and Rule Quotes

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. - Abraham Lincoln | Government and Rule Quotes

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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. - Abraham Lincoln | History and Historians Quotes

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. - Abraham Lincoln | History and Historians Quotes

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory. - Abraham Lincoln | Marriage Quotes

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves. - Abraham Lincoln | Originality Quotes

Every man over forty is responsible for his face. - Abraham Lincoln | Personal Appearance Quotes

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day. - Abraham Lincoln | Politicians Quotes

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good. - Abraham Lincoln | Politics Quotes

Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the presidency. - Abraham Lincoln | The Presidency Quotes

I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing, I'd rather walk.' - Abraham Lincoln | The Presidency Quotes

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if, at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth, I shall have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me. - Abraham Lincoln | The Presidency Quotes

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run. - Abraham Lincoln | Quips and Comments Quotes

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. - Abraham Lincoln | Women Quotes

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln | Happiness Quotes

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but, my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift. - Abraham Lincoln | Happiness Quotes

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run. - Abraham Lincoln | Acceptance Quotes

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. - Abraham Lincoln | Friendship Quotes

Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. - Abraham Lincoln | God Quotes

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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day. - Abraham Lincoln | Prayer Quotes

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln | Self-Reliance Quotes

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. - Abraham Lincoln | The Past Quotes

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. - Abraham Lincoln | The Future Quotes

If they do kill me, I shall never die another death. - Abraham Lincoln | Positive Quotes

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln | Enthusiasm Quotes

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. - Abraham Lincoln | Role Models Quotes

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views. - Abraham Lincoln | Creating Positive Change Quotes

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. - Abraham Lincoln | Motivation Quotes

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays. - Abraham Lincoln | Realistic Expectations Quotes

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. - Abraham Lincoln | Goals Quotes

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation. - Abraham Lincoln | Risks Quotes

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln | Success Quotes

With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase. - Abraham Lincoln | Success Quotes

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln | Commitment Quotes

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays. - Abraham Lincoln | Commitment and Belief Quotes

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln | Action Quotes

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. - Abraham Lincoln | Action Quotes

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. - Abraham Lincoln | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

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- Abraham Lincoln | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. - Abraham Lincoln | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation. - Abraham Lincoln | Adversity Quotes

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation. - Abraham Lincoln | Worthy Victories Quotes

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed. - Abraham Lincoln | Events Quotes

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office. - Abraham Lincoln | Events Quotes

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents. - Abraham Lincoln | Family Quotes

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good life. - Abraham Lincoln | Lighten up Quotes

I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln | Lighten up Quotes

Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln | Happiness Quotes

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Abraham Lincoln | Capital and Labor Quotes

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? - Abraham Lincoln | Conservatism Quotes

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. - Abraham Lincoln | Deception Quotes

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people. - Abraham Lincoln | Democracy Quotes

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. - Abraham Lincoln | Duty Quotes

Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. - Abraham Lincoln | Equality Quotes

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. - Abraham Lincoln | Faith Quotes

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. - Abraham Lincoln | Force Quotes

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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot long retain it. - Abraham Lincoln | Cowardice Quotes

... That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. - Abraham Lincoln | Cowardice Quotes

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of Ewer, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at st have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. - Abraham Lincoln | Friends Quotes

"We trust, Sir, that God is on our side." "It is more important to know that we are on God's side." - Abraham Lincoln | Glory Quotes

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. - Abraham Lincoln | Government Quotes

A house divided against itself cannot stand�I believe this government cannot endure permanently halfslave and half-free. - Abraham Lincoln | Government Quotes

All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. - Abraham Lincoln | Mother Quotes

You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. - Abraham Lincoln | Oath Quotes

This struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions. - Abraham Lincoln | Office Quotes

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. - Abraham Lincoln | Opinion Quotes

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. - Abraham Lincoln | People Quotes

God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them. - Abraham Lincoln | People Quotes

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. - Abraham Lincoln | People Quotes

Important principles may and must be flexible. - Abraham Lincoln | Principle Quotes

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. - Abraham Lincoln | Revolution Quotes

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. - Abraham Lincoln | Right Quotes

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. - Abraham Lincoln | Slavery Quotes

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But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. - Abraham Lincoln | Soldier Quotes

The ballot is stronger than the bullet. - Abraham Lincoln | War Quotes

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Albert Camus Quotes and Quotations

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day. - Albert Camus | Action Quotes

The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy. - Albert Camus | Adversity Quotes

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles. - Albert Camus | Art and the Artist Quotes

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. - Albert Camus | Beauty Quotes

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. - Albert Camus | Character and Personality Quotes

As a remedy to life in society, I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach. - Albert Camus | The City and the Country Quotes

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. - Albert Camus | Fear Quotes

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. - Albert Camus | Happiness Quotes

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. - Albert Camus | Human Relations Quotes

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The innocent is the person who explains nothing. - Albert Camus | Innocence Quotes

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. - Albert Camus | Intellect Quotes

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn. - Albert Camus | Leaders and Leadership Quotes

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another, and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. - Albert Camus | Life Quotes

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. - Albert Camus | Life Quotes

A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images. - Albert Camus | Literature Quotes

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. - Albert Camus | Love Quotes

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life. - Albert Camus | Love Quotes

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. - Albert Camus | Optimism and Pessimism Quotes

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An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be. - Albert Camus | Passion and the Heart Quotes

Politics, and the fate of mankind, are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. - Albert Camus | Politics Quotes

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day. - Albert Camus | Religion Quotes

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. - Albert Camus | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

We call first truths those we discover after all the others. - Albert Camus | Truth Quotes

I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue. - Albert Camus | Virtue Quotes

There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted. - Albert Camus | Work Quotes

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. - Albert Camus | Writers and Writing Quotes

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? - Albert Camus | Happiness Quotes

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another, and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. - Albert Camus | Forgiveness Quotes

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Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. - Albert Camus | Friendship Quotes

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. - Albert Camus | Self-Knowledge Quotes

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all, accept these things. - Albert Camus | Self-Acceptance Quotes

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. - Albert Camus | Self-Reliance Quotes

Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eter1nal youth. - Albert Camus | One Day Quotes

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. - Albert Camus | The Present Quotes

Life is the sum of all your choices. - Albert Camus | Decisions Quotes

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And, above all, accept these things. - Albert Camus | Realistic Expectations Quotes

This is the century of fear. - Albert Camus | Fear Quotes

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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. - Albert Camus | Other Ways to Overcome Fear Quotes

We are not certain, we are never certain. - Albert Camus | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst. - Albert Camus | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. - Albert Camus | Getting Going Quotes

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. - Albert Camus | Success Quotes

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst. - Albert Camus | Opportunities Quotes

There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. - Albert Camus | Work Quotes

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. - Albert Camus | Time Quotes

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. - Albert Camus | Adversity Quotes

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads. - Albert Camus | Lighten up Quotes

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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. - Albert Camus | Peace Quotes

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Albert Einstein Quotes and Quotations

Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. - Albert Einstein | Books and Reading Quotes

The environment is everything that isn't me. - Albert Einstein | Environment Quotes

I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein | God Quotes

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German, and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. - Albert Einstein | Greatness Quotes

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received. - Albert Einstein | Human Relations Quotes

Most people go on living their everyday life: frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that has been performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world. - Albert Einstein | Imitation Quotes

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. - Albert Einstein | Intellect Quotes

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18. - Albert Einstein | The Mind Quotes

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It is the theory that decides what can be observed. - Albert Einstein | Observation Quotes

The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it. - Albert Einstein | Politics Quotes

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein | Quips and Comments Quotes

As far as the laws of Mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. - Albert Einstein | Science and Technology Quotes

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. - Albert Einstein | Science and Technology Quotes

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought. - Albert Einstein | Science and Technology Quotes

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. - Albert Einstein | Science and Technology Quotes

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right, - Albert Einstein | Science and Technology Quotes

E = MC^2: Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. - Albert Einstein | Science and Technology Quotes

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A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. - Albert Einstein | Success Quotes

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein | Time Quotes

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. - Albert Einstein | Truth Quotes

How do I work? I grope. - Albert Einstein | Work Quotes

It is the theory which decided what can be observed. - Albert Einstein | Science and Technology Quotes

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. - Albert Einstein | Forgiveness Quotes

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while. - Albert Einstein | Helping Other People Quotes

The deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. - Albert Einstein | God Quotes

God is clever, but not dishonest. - Albert Einstein | God Quotes

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Everything should be made as simple as possible ... but not simpler. - Albert Einstein | Simplicity Quotes

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. - Albert Einstein | Simplicity Quotes

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein | One Day Quotes

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein | The Future Quotes

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein | Instincts Quotes

Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value. - Albert Einstein | Success Quotes

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives, and not in what he is able to receive. - Albert Einstein | Success Quotes

I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein | Time Quotes

I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

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No, this trick won't work. . . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? - Albert Einstein | Beginnings Quotes

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein | Beginnings Quotes

Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. - Albert Einstein | Nature Quotes

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein | Birthdays and Age Quotes

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein | Future Quotes

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. - Albert Einstein | Hunger Quotes

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein | Imagination Quotes

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. - Albert Einstein | Nationalism Quotes

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Alexander Hamilton Quotes and Quotations

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. - Alexander Hamilton | Capitalism Quotes

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. - Alexander Hamilton | Acceptance Quotes

Man is a reasoning, rather than a reasonable, animal. - Alexander Hamilton | Decisions Quotes

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. - Alexander Hamilton | Events Quotes

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. - Alexander Hamilton | Constitution Quotes

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. - Alexander Hamilton | Debt Quotes

It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part. - Alexander Hamilton | Republic Quotes

Learn to think continentally. - Alexander Hamilton | Statesmanship Quotes

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Alexander Pope Quotes and Quotations

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. - Alexander Pope | Adversity Quotes

Thus education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. - Alexander Pope | Education Quotes

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. - Alexander Pope | Fashion Quotes

And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too. - Alexander Pope | Gossip and Gossips Quotes

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is man. - Alexander Pope | Homo Sapiens Quotes

Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest. - Alexander Pope | Hope Quotes

Alive, ridiculous, and dead forgot? - Alexander Pope | Insults and Calumny Quotes

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. - Alexander Pope | Justice Quotes

The learned is happy, nature to explore, the fool is happy, that he knows no more. - Alexander Pope | Knowledge Quotes

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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. - Alexander Pope | Life Quotes

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ. - Alexander Pope | Literature Quotes

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs. What mighty contests rise from trivial things. - Alexander Pope | Love Quotes

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state. - Alexander Pope | Medicine and Sickness Quotes

Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private. - Alexander Pope | Men and Women Quotes

Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven. - Alexander Pope | Music Quotes

The ruling passion, be it what it will, the ruling passion conquers reason still. - Alexander Pope | Passion and the Heart Quotes

A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practise it. - Alexander Pope | Philosophy Quotes

Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. - Alexander Pope | Politics Quotes

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed. - Alexander Pope | Poverty Quotes

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Some praise at morning what they blame at night. - Alexander Pope | Praise and Flattery Quotes

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place. - Alexander Pope | Success Quotes

True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. - Alexander Pope | Wit Quotes

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think. - Alexander Pope | Happiness Quotes

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss. - Alexander Pope | Happiness Quotes

How shall I love the sin, yet keep the sense, And love the offender, yet detest the offence? - Alexander Pope | Forgiveness Quotes

To err is human; to forgive, divine. - Alexander Pope | Forgiveness Quotes

Men would be angels; angels would be gods. - Alexander Pope | Other Side Quotes

I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not. - Alexander Pope | Helping Other People Quotes

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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. - Alexander Pope | Helping Other People Quotes

There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship. - Alexander Pope | Friendship Quotes

All seems infected that the infected spy, as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. - Alexander Pope | Positive Quotes

Hope springs eternal in the human breast. - Alexander Pope | Hope Quotes

Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk, at least, before they dance. - Alexander Pope | Time Quotes

To err is human, to forgive divine. - Alexander Pope | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

All gardening is landscape painting. - Alexander Pope | Nature Quotes

For fools admire, but men of sense approve. - Alexander Pope | Admiration Quotes

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. - Alexander Pope | Compliment Quotes

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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. - Alexander Pope | Creation Quotes

Till tired, he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. - Alexander Pope | Death Quotes

Men would be angels; Angels would be gods. - Alexander Pope | Discontent Quotes

There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul. - Alexander Pope | Drinking Quotes

'Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. - Alexander Pope | Education Quotes

To err is human, to forgive divine. - Alexander Pope | Error Quotes

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded. - Alexander Pope | Excuse Quotes

The feast of reason, and the flow of soul. - Alexander Pope | Festivities Quotes

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. - Alexander Pope | Fools Quotes

The world forgetting, by the world forgot. - Alexander Pope | Forgetfulness Quotes

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To err is human, to forgive, divine. - Alexander Pope | Forgiveness Quotes

He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind. - Alexander Pope | Glory Quotes

An honest man's the noblest work of God. - Alexander Pope | Honesty Quotes

Hope springs eternal in the human breast. - Alexander Pope | Hope Quotes

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. - Alexander Pope | Hospitality Quotes

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend. - Alexander Pope | Influence Quotes

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; Their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. - Alexander Pope | Learning Quotes

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light. - Alexander Pope | Light Quotes

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. - Alexander Pope | Man Quotes

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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n. - Alexander Pope | Music Quotes

Blessed be he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. - Alexander Pope | Nothingness Quotes

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. - Alexander Pope | Obscurity Quotes

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie. - Alexander Pope | Obscurity Quotes

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him. - Alexander Pope | Obstinacy Quotes

Order is Heaven's first law. - Alexander Pope | Order Quotes

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. - Alexander Pope | Passion Quotes

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. - Alexander Pope | Perfection Quotes

If I am right, Thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way! - Alexander Pope | Prayer Quotes

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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. - Alexander Pope | Pride Quotes

He that would pun would pick a pocket. - Alexander Pope | Pun Quotes

The feast of reason and the flow of soul. - Alexander Pope | Reason Quotes

One truth is clear, Whatever is is right. - Alexander Pope | Right Quotes

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. - Alexander Pope | Sculpture Quotes

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. - Alexander Pope | Stupidiity Quotes

Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's bless'd. - Alexander Pope | Sympathy Quotes

What so tedious as a twice-told tale? - Alexander Pope | Tale Quotes

Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place. - Alexander Pope | Wealth Quotes

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All other goods by fortune's hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heav'n. - Alexander Pope | Wife Quotes

True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. - Alexander Pope | Wit Quotes

Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live. - Alexander Pope | Women Quotes

Woman's at best a contradiction still. - Alexander Pope | Women Quotes

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. - Alexander Pope | Wooing Quotes

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello. - Alexander Pope | Worth Quotes

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. - Alexander Pope | Youth Quotes

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Ambrose Bierce Quotes and Quotations

Piracy, n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it. - Ambrose Bierce | Buying and Selling Quotes

Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. - Ambrose Bierce | Character and Personality Quotes

Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbour. - Ambrose Bierce | Christians and Christianity Quotes

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be. - Ambrose Bierce | Cynicism Quotes

Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich. - Ambrose Bierce | Death and Dying Quotes

Epitaph, n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. - Ambrose Bierce | Death and Dying Quotes

Education, n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. - Ambrose Bierce | Education Quotes

That sovereign of insufferables. - Ambrose Bierce | Fame and Celebrities Quotes

Destiny, n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. - Ambrose Bierce | Fate and Destiny Quotes

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History, n: an account mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. - Ambrose Bierce | History and Historians Quotes

Acquaintance, n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. - Ambrose Bierce | Human Relations Quotes

Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about. - Ambrose Bierce | Ignorance Quotes

Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw. - Ambrose Bierce | Law and Lawyers Quotes

Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone. - Ambrose Bierce | Law and Lawyers Quotes

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making, in all, two. - Ambrose Bierce | Marriage Quotes

Philanthropist: a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket. - Ambrose Bierce | Money Quotes

To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. - Ambrose Bierce | Opinion Quotes

Painting, n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. - Ambrose Bierce | Painters and Painting Quotes

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Peace: in international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. - Ambrose Bierce | Peace Quotes

Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star. - Ambrose Bierce | Power Quotes

Commendation, n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble, but do not equal, our own. - Ambrose Bierce | Praise and Flattery Quotes

Pray, v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. - Ambrose Bierce | Prayer Quotes

Heathen, n. A beknighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel. - Ambrose Bierce | Religion Quotes

Infidel, n: in New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. - Ambrose Bierce | Religion Quotes

Apologize, v: to lay the foundation for a future offence. - Ambrose Bierce | Repentance and Apology Quotes

Perseverance, n.: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success. - Ambrose Bierce | Success Quotes

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one. - Ambrose Bierce | Hope Quotes

Achievement: The death of an endeavor, and the birth of disgust. - Ambrose Bierce | Success Quotes

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Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost. - Ambrose Bierce | Friends Quotes

Admiration: Our polite recognition of another man's resemblance to ourselves. - Ambrose Bierce | Thank-yous and Closures Quotes

Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. - Ambrose Bierce | Admiration Quotes

The echo of a platitude. - Ambrose Bierce | Applause Quotes

Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen. - Ambrose Bierce | Bores Quotes

A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distin-quished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. - Ambrose Bierce | Conservatism Quotes

One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. - Ambrose Bierce | Cowardice Quotes

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. - Ambrose Bierce | Philosophy Quotes

Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact. - Ambrose Bierce | Tact Quotes

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Anais Nin Quotes and Quotations

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin | Courage and Bravery Quotes

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought. - Anais Nin | War Quotes

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. - Anais Nin | Writers and Writing Quotes

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. - Anais Nin | Happiness Quotes

Violence is a symptom of impotence. - Anais Nin | Helping Other People Quotes

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. - Anais Nin | Friendship Quotes

[Families] are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed. - Anais Nin | Friendship Quotes

What I cannot love, I overlook. - Anais Nin | Friendship Quotes

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I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself. - Anais Nin | Friendship Quotes

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person. - Anais Nin | Self-Knowledge Quotes

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself. - Anais Nin | Self-Acceptance Quotes

When one is pretending the entire body revolts. - Anais Nin | Self-Acceptance Quotes

Beware of allowing a tactless word, rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky. - Anais Nin | Self-Control Quotes

One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion. - Anais Nin | The Past Quotes

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use. - Anais Nin | Creating Positive Change Quotes

One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion. - Anais Nin | Creating Positive Change Quotes

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I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me. - Anais Nin | Right Quotes

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself. - Anais Nin | Right Quotes

People living deeply have no fear of death. - Anais Nin | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. - Anais Nin | Risks Quotes

There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest. - Anais Nin | Courage Quotes

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin | Courage Quotes

I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair. - Anais Nin | Luck Quotes

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. - Anais Nin | Time Quotes

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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. - Anais Nin | Events Quotes

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing. - Anais Nin | Heartbreak Quotes

What I cannot love, I overlook. - Anais Nin | Life Quotes

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Aristotle Quotes and Quotations

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies. - Aristotle | Art and the Artist Quotes

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. - Aristotle | Character and Personality Quotes

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. - Aristotle | The City and the Country Quotes

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. - Aristotle | Democracy Quotes

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. - Aristotle | Friends and Friendship Quotes

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them. - Aristotle | Honour Quotes

Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. - Aristotle | Humour and Humorists Quotes

All men by nature desire to know. - Aristotle | Knowledge Quotes

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully. - Aristotle | Poets and Poetry Quotes

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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. - Aristotle | Revolution and Reform Quotes

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty. - Aristotle | Wit Quotes

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence - Aristotle | Happiness Quotes

Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means. - Aristotle | Happiness Quotes

Happiness depends upon ourselves. - Aristotle | Happiness Quotes

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions. - Aristotle | Happiness Quotes

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity. - Aristotle | Happiness Quotes

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. - Aristotle | Acceptance Quotes

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. - Aristotle | Acceptance Quotes

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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. - Aristotle | Friendship Quotes

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds. - Aristotle | Friendship Quotes

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us. - Aristotle | Friendship Quotes

Between friends there is no need of justice. - Aristotle | Friendship Quotes

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. - Aristotle | Friendship Quotes

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. - Aristotle | Friendship Quotes

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. - Aristotle | Friendship Quotes

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle | Friendship Quotes

God has many names, though He is only one Being. - Aristotle | God Quotes

What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. - Aristotle | Self-Control Quotes

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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; the hardest victory is the victory over self. - Aristotle | Self-Control Quotes

Happiness depends upon ourselves. - Aristotle | Self-Reliance Quotes

Quality is not an act. It is a habit. - Aristotle | One Day Quotes

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. - Aristotle | Positive Quotes

Hope is a waking dream. - Aristotle | Hope Quotes

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life. - Aristotle | Right Quotes

All men seek one goal: success or happiness. - Aristotle | Goals Quotes

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. - Aristotle | Other Ways to Overcome Fear Quotes

Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. - Aristotle | Getting Going Quotes

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Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may ... meet with great misfortunes. - Aristotle | Recognize and Maximize Quotes

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle | Companionship Quotes

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle | Family Quotes

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. - Aristotle | Lighten up Quotes

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. - Aristotle | Nature Quotes

A true friend is one soul in two bodies. - Aristotle | Friends Quotes

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. - Aristotle | Genius Quotes

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. - Aristotle | Insanity Quotes

The physician heals, Nature makes well. - Aristotle | Medicine Quotes

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. - Aristotle | Moderation Quotes

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Man is by nature a civic animal. - Aristotle | Politics Quotes

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles. - Aristotle | Revolution Quotes

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old. - Aristotle | Shame Quotes

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Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes and Quotations

Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Acting and the Theatre Quotes

We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Art and the Artist Quotes

Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Books and Reading Quotes

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Capitalism Quotes

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Courage and Bravery Quotes

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Greatness Quotes

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Hatred Quotes

Fame is something which must be won; honour is something which must not be lost. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Honour Quotes

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Life Quotes

Money is human happiness in the abstract. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Money Quotes

A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Ownership and Possession Quotes

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Politeness and Manners Quotes

Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Pride Quotes

Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be? - Arthur Schopenhauer | Reason Quotes

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Society and Social Quotes

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Truth Quotes

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Will and Determination Quotes

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The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Will and Determination Quotes

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Will and Determination Quotes

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Youth Quotes

Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Cheerfulness Quotes

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Happiness Quotes

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Happiness Quotes

The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering, from positive evil. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Forgiveness Quotes

Compassion is the basis of all morality. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Helping Other People Quotes

I observed once to Goethe ... that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself." - Arthur Schopenhauer | Friendship Quotes

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Pride ... is the direct appreciation of oneself. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Self-Confidence Quotes

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and subject to chance. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Self-Reliance Quotes

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. - Arthur Schopenhauer | One Day Quotes

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death. - Arthur Schopenhauer | One Day Quotes

Time is that in which all things pass away. - Arthur Schopenhauer | One Day Quotes

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Mornings Quotes

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, and to a certain extent sacred. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Mornings Quotes

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Realistic Expectations Quotes

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The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity, for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Courage Quotes

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Recognize and Maximize Quotes

It is in trifles, and when he is off his guard, that a man best shows his character. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Time Quotes

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. - Arthur Schopenhauer | Problems Quotes

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Baltasar Gracian Quotes and Quotations

Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it. - Baltasar Gracian | Adversity Quotes

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. - Baltasar Gracian | Enemies Quotes

Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance. - Baltasar Gracian | Fashion Quotes

Good things, when short, are twice as good. - Baltasar Gracian | Goodness and Giving Quotes

Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good. - Baltasar Gracian | Goodness and Giving Quotes

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty, nothing at all. - Baltasar Gracian | Men Quotes

'No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them. - Baltasar Gracian | Opinion Quotes

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. - Baltasar Gracian | Speakers and Speeches Quotes

Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else. - Baltasar Gracian | Time Quotes

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Time and I against any two. - Baltasar Gracian | Time Quotes

Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of Time. - Baltasar Gracian | Truth Quotes

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody. - Baltasar Gracian | Vice Quotes

Good things, when short, are twice as good. - Baltasar Gracian | War Quotes

A sage has one advantage; he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be. - Baltasar Gracian | Wisdom Quotes

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. - Baltasar Gracian | Wisdom Quotes

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected. - Baltasar Gracian | Wisdom Quotes

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early. - Baltasar Gracian | Women Quotes

Words are feminine; deeds are masculine. - Baltasar Gracian | Words and Language Quotes

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Begin with another's to end with your own. - Baltasar Gracian | Writers and Writing Quotes

Surfeits of happiness are fatal. - Baltasar Gracian | Happiness Quotes

If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would. - Baltasar Gracian | Acceptance Quotes

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied. - Baltasar Gracian | Forgiveness Quotes

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. - Baltasar Gracian | Other Side Quotes

There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul. - Baltasar Gracian | Friendship Quotes

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune, the very ventilation of the soul. - Baltasar Gracian | Friendship Quotes

Friends are a second existence. - Baltasar Gracian | Friendship Quotes

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. - Baltasar Gracian | Positive Quotes

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Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame. - Baltasar Gracian | Role Models Quotes

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. - Baltasar Gracian | Courage Quotes

Knowledge without courage is sterile. - Baltasar Gracian | Courage Quotes

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand. - Baltasar Gracian | Ignorance Quotes

The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance. - Baltasar Gracian | Ignorance Quotes

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. - Baltasar Gracian | Getting Going Quotes

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it. - Baltasar Gracian | Luck Quotes

Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor. - Baltasar Gracian | Luck Quotes

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it. - Baltasar Gracian | Action Quotes

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One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity. - Baltasar Gracian | Adversity Quotes

Superiority is always detested. - Baltasar Gracian | Superiority Quotes

Words are feminine; deeds are masculine. - Baltasar Gracian | Word Quotes

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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes and Quotations

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others. - Benjamin Disraeli | Advice Quotes

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. - Benjamin Disraeli | Books and Reading Quotes

He has not a single redeeming defect. - Benjamin Disraeli | Character and Personality Quotes

A precedent embalms a principle. - Benjamin Disraeli | Habit and Tradition Quotes

Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others. - Benjamin Disraeli | Deception Quotes

London is a roost for every bird. - Benjamin Disraeli | England and the U.K. Quotes

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic. - Benjamin Disraeli | Friends and Friendship Quotes

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. - Benjamin Disraeli | Government and Rule Quotes

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The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lords, am on the side of the angels. - Benjamin Disraeli | Homo Sapiens Quotes

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli | Love Quotes

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. - Benjamin Disraeli | Marriage Quotes

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. - Benjamin Disraeli | Marriage Quotes

Departure should be sudden. - Benjamin Disraeli | Meetings and Partings Quotes

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. - Benjamin Disraeli | Mistakes and Blunders Quotes

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing. - Benjamin Disraeli | Opinion Quotes

Damn your principles! Stick to your party! - Benjamin Disraeli | Politics Quotes

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. - Benjamin Disraeli | Quips and Comments Quotes

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon. - Benjamin Disraeli | Religion Quotes

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The secret of success is constancy to purpose. - Benjamin Disraeli | Success Quotes

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. - Benjamin Disraeli | Travel and Travellers Quotes

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. - Benjamin Disraeli | Helping Other People Quotes

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart. - Benjamin Disraeli | Friendship Quotes

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic. - Benjamin Disraeli | Friendship Quotes

Something will turn up. - Benjamin Disraeli | Faith and Unity Quotes

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. - Benjamin Disraeli | Self-Reliance Quotes

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. - Benjamin Disraeli | This Moment Quotes

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves. - Benjamin Disraeli | The Future Quotes

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Everything comes if a man will only wait. - Benjamin Disraeli | Difficult Days Quotes

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. - Benjamin Disraeli | Enthusiasm Quotes

Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant. - Benjamin Disraeli | Change Quotes

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves. - Benjamin Disraeli | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

Fear makes us feel our humanity. - Benjamin Disraeli | Other Ways to Overcome Fear Quotes

Worry is a god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray. - Benjamin Disraeli | Worry Quotes

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. - Benjamin Disraeli | Risks Quotes

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. - Benjamin Disraeli | Courage Quotes

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. - Benjamin Disraeli | Success Quotes

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The secret of success is constancy of purpose. - Benjamin Disraeli | Success Quotes

Luck is what a capricious man believes in. - Benjamin Disraeli | Luck Quotes

The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. - Benjamin Disraeli | Opportunity Quotes

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage. - Benjamin Disraeli | Opportunities Quotes

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. - Benjamin Disraeli | Commitment Quotes

The secret of success is constancy of purpose. - Benjamin Disraeli | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

The English nation is never so great as in adversity. - Benjamin Disraeli | Adversity Quotes

Little things affect little minds. - Benjamin Disraeli | Events Quotes

We are all born for love; it is the principle of existence and its only end. - Benjamin Disraeli | Life Quotes

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I feel a very unusual sensation�if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. - Benjamin Disraeli | Thank-yous and Closures Quotes

There is no education like adversity. - Benjamin Disraeli | Adversity Quotes

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret. - Benjamin Disraeli | Age Quotes

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension. - Benjamin Disraeli | Argument Quotes

The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. - Benjamin Disraeli | Authorship Quotes

Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. - Benjamin Disraeli | Christianity Quotes

His Christianity was muscular. - Benjamin Disraeli | Christianity Quotes

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men. - Benjamin Disraeli | Circumstance Quotes

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce. - Benjamin Disraeli | Commerce Quotes

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art. - Benjamin Disraeli | Criticism Quotes

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Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages. - Benjamin Disraeli | Demagogues Quotes

Despair is the conclusion of fools. - Benjamin Disraeli | Despair Quotes

The English nation is never so great as in adversity. - Benjamin Disraeli | England Quotes

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers. - Benjamin Disraeli | England Quotes

Everything comes if a man will only wait. - Benjamin Disraeli | Expectation Quotes

We make our fortunes and we call them fate. - Benjamin Disraeli | Fate Quotes

Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman. - Benjamin Disraeli | Gentleman Quotes

Assassination has never changed the history of the world. - Benjamin Disraeli | History Quotes

Ignorance never settles a question. - Benjamin Disraeli | Ignorance Quotes

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. - Benjamin Disraeli | Knowledge Quotes

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civi-lizers of man. - Benjamin Disraeli | Leisure Quotes

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret. - Benjamin Disraeli | Life Quotes

London is a roost, for every bird. - Benjamin Disraeli | London Quotes

We are all born for love, ... It is the principle of existence and its only end. - Benjamin Disraeli | Love Quotes

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. - Benjamin Disraeli | Marriage Quotes

Every woman should marry�and no man. - Benjamin Disraeli | Marriage Quotes

Departure should be sudden. - Benjamin Disraeli | Parting Quotes

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions. - Benjamin Disraeli | Passion Quotes

A majority is always better than the best repartee. - Benjamin Disraeli | Politics Quotes

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I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me. - Benjamin Disraeli | Resolution Quotes

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity. - Benjamin Disraeli | Speech Quotes

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me. - Benjamin Disraeli | Speech Quotes

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity. - Benjamin Disraeli | Speech Quotes

Without tact you can learn nothing. - Benjamin Disraeli | Tact Quotes

Travel teaches toleration. - Benjamin Disraeli | Traveling Quotes

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. - Benjamin Disraeli | Trust Quotes

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Benjamin Franklin Quotes and Quotations

If you want a thing done, go - if not, send. - Benjamin Franklin | Action Quotes

All would live long, but none would be old. - Benjamin Franklin | Aging and Old Age Quotes

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin | Books and Reading Quotes

A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent. - Benjamin Franklin | Children and Childhood Quotes

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse. - Benjamin Franklin | Fame and Celebrities Quotes

There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. - Benjamin Franklin | Friends and Friendship Quotes

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin | Homo Sapiens Quotes

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him. - Benjamin Franklin | Imitation Quotes

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Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first. - Benjamin Franklin | Life Quotes

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife? - Benjamin Franklin | Marriage Quotes

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. - Benjamin Franklin | Medicine and Sickness Quotes

Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it. - Benjamin Franklin | Medicine and Sickness Quotes

We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin | Minorities Quotes

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire. - Benjamin Franklin | Praise and Flattery Quotes

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - Benjamin Franklin | Revolution and Reform Quotes

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason. - Benjamin Franklin | Speakers and Speeches Quotes

What maintains one vice would bring up two children. - Benjamin Franklin | Vice Quotes

There never was a good war or a bad peace. - Benjamin Franklin | War Quotes

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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin | Wisdom Quotes

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin | Happiness Quotes

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. - Benjamin Franklin | Happiness Quotes

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. - Benjamin Franklin | Forgiveness Quotes

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave con-tently. - Benjamin Franklin | Forgiveness Quotes

If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few. - Benjamin Franklin | Forgiveness Quotes

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. - Benjamin Franklin | Helping Other People Quotes

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. - Benjamin Franklin | Friendship Quotes

The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason. - Benjamin Franklin | Faith and Unity Quotes

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Work as if you were to live one hundred years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow. - Benjamin Franklin | Prayer Quotes

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself. - Benjamin Franklin | Self-Reliance Quotes

If you want a thing done, go; if not, send. - Benjamin Franklin | Self-Reliance Quotes

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin | Self-Reliance Quotes

Lost time is never found again. - Benjamin Franklin | One Day Quotes

You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin | One Day Quotes

Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin | One Day Quotes

If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again. - Benjamin Franklin | One Day Quotes

Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. - Benjamin Franklin | One Day Quotes

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Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve. - Benjamin Franklin | One Day Quotes

One today is worth two tomorrows. - Benjamin Franklin | The Present Quotes

Today is yesterday's pupil. - Benjamin Franklin | The Present Quotes

Fatigue is the best pillow. - Benjamin Franklin | Evenings Quotes

He that can have patience can have what he will. - Benjamin Franklin | Difficult Days Quotes

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience. - Benjamin Franklin | Difficult Days Quotes

If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin | Positive Quotes

Energy and persistence conquer all things. - Benjamin Franklin | Enthusiasm Quotes

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him. - Benjamin Franklin | Role Models Quotes

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When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains. - Benjamin Franklin | Decisions Quotes

The secret of success is constancy to purpose. - Benjamin Franklin | Goals Quotes

The way to be safe is never to be secure. - Benjamin Franklin | Security Quotes

Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin | Getting Going Quotes

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. - Benjamin Franklin | Success Quotes

Success has ruined many a man. - Benjamin Franklin | Success Quotes

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. - Benjamin Franklin | Luck Quotes

He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner. - Benjamin Franklin | Opportunities Quotes

Perform without fail what you resolve. - Benjamin Franklin | Commitment and Belief Quotes

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Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. - Benjamin Franklin | Work Quotes

God helps them that helps themselves. - Benjamin Franklin | Action Quotes

Little strokes fell great oaks. - Benjamin Franklin | Time Quotes

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. - Benjamin Franklin | Time Quotes

A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost. - Benjamin Franklin | Time Quotes

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune, for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible. - Benjamin Franklin | Adversity Quotes

Those things that hurt, instruct. - Benjamin Franklin | Adversity Quotes

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. - Benjamin Franklin | Companionship Quotes

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. - Benjamin Franklin | Companionship Quotes

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He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. - Benjamin Franklin | Introspection Quotes

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin | Life Quotes

If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin | Lighten up Quotes

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion. - Benjamin Franklin | Wealth Quotes

Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it. - Benjamin Franklin | Wealth Quotes

At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment. - Benjamin Franklin | Age Quotes

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. - Benjamin Franklin | Bachelor Quotes

For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horseshoe nail. - Benjamin Franklin | Carelessness Quotes

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge. - Benjamin Franklin | Carelessness Quotes

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Little boats should keep near shore. - Benjamin Franklin | Caution Quotes

Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak. - Benjamin Franklin | Childhood Quotes

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. - Benjamin Franklin | Desire Quotes

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. - Benjamin Franklin | Dress Quotes

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. - Benjamin Franklin | Early Rising Quotes

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. - Benjamin Franklin | Economy Quotes

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. - Benjamin Franklin | Education Quotes

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. - Benjamin Franklin | Example Quotes

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather. - Benjamin Franklin | Face Quotes

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin | Fame Quotes

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There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. - Benjamin Franklin | Friends Quotes

Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming. - Benjamin Franklin | Gambling Quotes

We must all hang together, else we shalFall hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin | Hanging Quotes

Take time for all things. - Benjamin Franklin | Haste Quotes

After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser. - Benjamin Franklin | Humility Quotes

In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates. - Benjamin Franklin | Humility Quotes

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. - Benjamin Franklin | Law Quotes

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin | Liberty Quotes

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin | Life Quotes

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If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin | Love Quotes

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. - Benjamin Franklin | Marriage Quotes

God heals and the doctor takes the fee. - Benjamin Franklin | Medicine Quotes

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. - Benjamin Franklin | Medicine Quotes

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. - Benjamin Franklin | Money Quotes

Let they child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. - Benjamin Franklin | Obedience Quotes

Plough deep while sluggards sleep. - Benjamin Franklin | Opportunity Quotes

He that can have patience can have what he will. - Benjamin Franklin | Patience Quotes

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. - Benjamin Franklin | Peace Quotes

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. - Benjamin Franklin | Pride Quotes

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The proud hate pride�in others. - Benjamin Franklin | Pride Quotes

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to. - Benjamin Franklin | Principle Quotes

Mine is better than ours. - Benjamin Franklin | Property Quotes

Mine is better than ours. - Benjamin Franklin | Property Quotes

The best is the cheapest. - Benjamin Franklin | Quality Quotes

If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? - Benjamin Franklin | Religion Quotes

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. - Benjamin Franklin | Rest Quotes

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. - Benjamin Franklin | Self-Love Quotes

Fatigue is the best pillow. - Benjamin Franklin | Sleep Quotes

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin | Time Quotes

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One today is worth two tomorrows. - Benjamin Franklin | Today Quotes

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. - Benjamin Franklin | Tomorrow Quotes

We must all hang together or assuredly we shall hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin | Union Quotes

There never was a good war or a bad peace. - Benjamin Franklin | War Quotes

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. - Benjamin Franklin | Wealth Quotes

An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife. - Benjamin Franklin | Wife Quotes

Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise. - Benjamin Franklin | Wise Quotes

If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles. - Benjamin Franklin | Wish Quotes

Handle your tools without mittens. - Benjamin Franklin | Work Quotes

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A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. - Benjamin Franklin | Work Quotes

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin | World Quotes

Reckless youth makes rueful age. - Benjamin Franklin | Youth Quotes

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Bertrand Russell Quotes and Quotations

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. - Bertrand Russell | Ability and Achievement Quotes

The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved. - Bertrand Russell | Ability and Achievement Quotes

The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty. - Bertrand Russell | Action Quotes

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren. - Bertrand Russell | Action Quotes

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. - Bertrand Russell | Arguments and Quarrels Quotes

Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of a sculpture. - Bertrand Russell | Beauty Quotes

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. - Bertrand Russell | Bores and Boredom Quotes

'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. - Bertrand Russell | Change and Transience Quotes

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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. - Bertrand Russell | Conviction and Belief Quotes

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly, I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses. - Bertrand Russell | Crime and Punishment Quotes

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself. - Bertrand Russell | Crowds and the Masses Quotes

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness. - Bertrand Russell | Cynicism Quotes

Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do. - Bertrand Russell | Death and Dying Quotes

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. - Bertrand Russell | Drink, Drinking and Drinkers Quotes

The true spirit of delight, the exultation, the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. - Bertrand Russell | Enjoyment and Pleasure Quotes

To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization. - Bertrand Russell | Enjoyment and Pleasure Quotes

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. - Bertrand Russell | Friends and Friendship Quotes

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One must care about a world one will not see. - Bertrand Russell | The Future Quotes

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. - Bertrand Russell | Gossip and Gossips Quotes

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. - Bertrand Russell | Happiness Quotes

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. - Bertrand Russell | Happiness Quotes

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. - Bertrand Russell | Hatred Quotes

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. - Bertrand Russell | Human Relations Quotes

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. - Bertrand Russell | Knowledge Quotes

In all affairs, love, religion, politics or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell | Knowledge Quotes

Real life is to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. - Bertrand Russell | Life Quotes

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good. - Bertrand Russell | Life Quotes

There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle. - Bertrand Russell | Men Quotes

We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and the other which we practice but seldom preach. - Bertrand Russell | Morality and Ethics Quotes

One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. - Bertrand Russell | Opinion Quotes

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. - Bertrand Russell | Ownership and Possession Quotes

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. - Bertrand Russell | Parenthood Quotes

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. - Bertrand Russell | Philosophy Quotes

To teach how to live with uncertainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it. - Bertrand Russell | Philosophy Quotes

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. - Bertrand Russell | Philosophy Quotes

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I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds. - Bertrand Russell | Pride Quotes

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty. - Bertrand Russell | Proof and Certainty Quotes

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. - Bertrand Russell | Sorrow Quotes

All movements go too far. - Bertrand Russell | Time Quotes

Simpson succeeded in proving that there was no harm in giving anaesthetics to men, because God put Adam into a deep sleep when He extracted his rib. But male ecclesiastics remained unconvinced as regards the sufferings of women, at any rate in childbirth. - Bertrand Russell | Women Quotes

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest. - Bertrand Russell | Words and Language Quotes

Work is of two kinds: first, altering a position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill-paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid. - Bertrand Russell | Work Quotes

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. - Bertrand Russell | Happiness Quotes

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure. - Bertrand Russell | Unhappiness Quotes

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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances, it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. - Bertrand Russell | Happiness Quotes

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men this comes chiefly through their work. - Bertrand Russell | Happiness Quotes

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. - Bertrand Russell | Happiness Quotes

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live. - Bertrand Russell | Happiness Quotes

Real life is, to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. - Bertrand Russell | Acceptance Quotes

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful. - Bertrand Russell | Other Side Quotes

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not endured with patient resignation. - Bertrand Russell | Friendship Quotes

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him. - Bertrand Russell | Self-Confidence Quotes

The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts. - Bertrand Russell | The Present Quotes

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Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. - Bertrand Russell | Boring Days Quotes

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life. - Bertrand Russell | Enthusiasm Quotes

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. - Bertrand Russell | Hope Quotes

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery. - Bertrand Russell | Hope Quotes

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. - Bertrand Russell | Change Quotes

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile. - Bertrand Russell | Decisions Quotes

Real life is, to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. - Bertrand Russell | Realistic Expectations Quotes

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. - Bertrand Russell | Fear Quotes

All forms of fear produce fatigue. - Bertrand Russell | Fear Quotes

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. - Bertrand Russell | Fear Quotes

Those who fear life are already three parts dead. - Bertrand Russell | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell | Other Ways to Overcome Fear Quotes

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety. - Bertrand Russell | Worry Quotes

To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do. - Bertrand Russell | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom. - Bertrand Russell | Success Quotes

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement. - Bertrand Russell | Concentration Quotes

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men this comes chiefly through their work. - Bertrand Russell | Work Quotes

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. - Bertrand Russell | Beginnings Quotes

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. - Bertrand Russell | Life Quotes

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. - Bertrand Russell | Lighten up Quotes

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. - Bertrand Russell | Lighten up Quotes

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is very important. - Bertrand Russell | Professions and Work Quotes

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. - Bertrand Russell | Drinking Quotes

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C. S. Lewis Quotes and Quotations

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important. - C. S. Lewis | Christians and Christianity Quotes

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it. - C. S. Lewis | Christians and Christianity Quotes

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. - C. S. Lewis | Courage and Bravery Quotes

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. - C. S. Lewis | Enjoyment and Pleasure Quotes

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty miles an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. - C. S. Lewis | The Future Quotes

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. - C. S. Lewis | Hell and the Devil Quotes

A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish. - C. S. Lewis | Men and Women Quotes

Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee. - C. S. Lewis | Reality Quotes

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True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals. - C. S. Lewis | Friendship Quotes

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods. - C. S. Lewis | Faith and Unity Quotes

We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us. - C. S. Lewis | Prayer Quotes

Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine. - C. S. Lewis | Prayer Quotes

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there. - C. S. Lewis | Prayer Quotes

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed. - C. S. Lewis | Prayer Quotes

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done. - C. S. Lewis | Mornings Quotes

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. - C. S. Lewis | The Future Quotes

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. - C. S. Lewis | Difficult Days Quotes

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All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. - C. S. Lewis | Change Quotes

Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither. - C. S. Lewis | Goals Quotes

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. - C. S. Lewis | Courage Quotes

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." - C. S. Lewis | Action Quotes

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less. - C. S. Lewis | Faith Quotes

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be. - C. S. Lewis | Faith Quotes

Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not. - C. S. Lewis | Faith Quotes

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. - C. S. Lewis | Lighten up Quotes

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Calvin Coolidge Quotes and Quotations

No man ever listened himself out of a job. - Calvin Coolidge | Advice Quotes

The business of America is business. - Calvin Coolidge | Capitalism Quotes

No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave. - Calvin Coolidge | Honour Quotes

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime. - Calvin Coolidge | Order and Organization Quotes

The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced - it can not be told. - Calvin Coolidge | The Presidency Quotes

I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them. - Calvin Coolidge | The Presidency Quotes

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. - Calvin Coolidge | Silence Quotes

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it. - Calvin Coolidge | Speakers and Speeches Quotes

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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. - Calvin Coolidge | Will and Determination Quotes

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. - Calvin Coolidge | Work Quotes

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. - Calvin Coolidge | One Day Quotes

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. - Calvin Coolidge | Worry Quotes

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance. - Calvin Coolidge | Luck Quotes

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. - Calvin Coolidge | Time Quotes

Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. - Calvin Coolidge | Perseverance Quotes

The business of America is business. - Calvin Coolidge | Business Quotes

I do not choose to run for President in 1928. - Calvin Coolidge | Choice Quotes

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It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant. - Calvin Coolidge | Democracy Quotes

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace. - Calvin Coolidge | Economy Quotes

One with the law is a majority. - Calvin Coolidge | Majority Quotes

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow. - Calvin Coolidge | Worship Quotes

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Carl Sandburg Quotes and Quotations

Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders. - Carl Sandburg | America and Americans Quotes

Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder. - Carl Sandburg | Hope Quotes

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment. - Carl Sandburg | Poets and Poetry Quotes

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. - Carl Sandburg | Poets and Poetry Quotes

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude. - Carl Sandburg | Solitude Quotes

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. - Carl Sandburg | War Quotes

Slang is language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands - and goes to work. - Carl Sandburg | Words and Language Quotes

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg | One Day Quotes

Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in. - Carl Sandburg | One Day Quotes

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The past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. - Carl Sandburg | The Present Quotes

Nothing happens unless first a dream. - Carl Sandburg | Visualization Quotes

There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere. - Carl Sandburg | Goals Quotes

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. - Carl Sandburg | Courage Quotes

Love your neighbor as yourself, but don't take down the fence. - Carl Sandburg | Life Quotes

I'm an idealist: I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. - Carl Sandburg | Openers and Introductions Quotes

1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. - Carl Sandburg | Past Quotes

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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes and Quotations

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy and by religion. - Charles Caleb Colton | Adversity Quotes

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. - Charles Caleb Colton | Bores and Boredom Quotes

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know and not be known, live in a city. - Charles Caleb Colton | The City and the Country Quotes

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together. - Charles Caleb Colton | Death and Dying Quotes

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it. - Charles Caleb Colton | Education Quotes

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold, and the other to be buried. - Charles Caleb Colton | Friends and Friendship Quotes

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them. - Charles Caleb Colton | The Home Quotes

We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed. - Charles Caleb Colton | Knowledge Quotes

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours. - Charles Caleb Colton | Love Quotes

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals. - Charles Caleb Colton | Morality and Ethics Quotes

Mystery is not profoundness. - Charles Caleb Colton | Observation Quotes

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. - Charles Caleb Colton | Praise and Flattery Quotes

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them. - Charles Caleb Colton | Prejudice and Bigotry Quotes

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. - Charles Caleb Colton | Pride Quotes

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth, Health and Power. - Charles Caleb Colton | Religion Quotes

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it. - Charles Caleb Colton | Religion Quotes

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Charles Caleb Colton | Solitude Quotes

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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves. - Charles Caleb Colton | Truth Quotes

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in. - Charles Caleb Colton | Words and Language Quotes

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock, and assumes 10 different positions in a day. - Charles Caleb Colton | Work Quotes

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. - Charles Caleb Colton | Friendship in Bad Times Quotes

Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route. - Charles Caleb Colton | Happiness Quotes

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. - Charles Caleb Colton | Happiness Quotes

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men. - Charles Caleb Colton | Happiness Quotes

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. - Charles Caleb Colton | Forgiveness Quotes

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. - Charles Caleb Colton | Helping Other People Quotes

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He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later. - Charles Caleb Colton | Helping Other People Quotes

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. - Charles Caleb Colton | Friendship Quotes

Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them. - Charles Caleb Colton | Friendship Quotes

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. - Charles Caleb Colton | Self-Reliance Quotes

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. - Charles Caleb Colton | One Day Quotes

Men spend their lives in anticipation, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. - Charles Caleb Colton | The Present Quotes

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. - Charles Caleb Colton | Boring Days Quotes

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act. - Charles Caleb Colton | Positive Quotes

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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. - Charles Caleb Colton | Creating Positive Change Quotes

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils. - Charles Caleb Colton | Decisions Quotes

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. - Charles Caleb Colton | Right Quotes

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. - Charles Caleb Colton | Right Quotes

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. - Charles Caleb Colton | Motivation Quotes

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock, and assumes ten different positions in a day. - Charles Caleb Colton | Goals Quotes

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man, both are necessary. - Charles Caleb Colton | Courage Quotes

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. - Charles Caleb Colton | Courage Quotes

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. - Charles Caleb Colton | Courage Quotes

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Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit. - Charles Caleb Colton | Success Quotes

He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth. - Charles Caleb Colton | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms. - Charles Caleb Colton | Problems Quotes

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms. - Charles Caleb Colton | Adversity Quotes

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. - Charles Caleb Colton | Adversity Quotes

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation. - Charles Caleb Colton | Worthy Victories Quotes

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship�never. - Charles Caleb Colton | Friends Quotes

Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. - Charles Caleb Colton | Wealth Quotes

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Charles Darwin Quotes and Quotations

I have called the principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved by the term of Natural Selection. - Charles Darwin | Family and Ancestry Quotes

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate and is sometimes equally convenient. - Charles Darwin | Life Quotes

Light may be shed on man and his origins. - Charles Darwin | Nature Quotes

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term natural selection. - Charles Darwin | Nature Quotes

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the "Survival of the fittest", is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. - Charles Darwin | Nature Quotes

As for future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. - Charles Darwin | Religion Quotes

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain agnostic. - Charles Darwin | Religion Quotes

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague possibilities. - Charles Darwin | Religion Quotes

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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. - Charles Darwin | Writers and Writing Quotes

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. - Charles Darwin | One Day Quotes

I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like a conscience. - Charles Darwin | Dogs Quotes

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Charles Dickens Quotes and Quotations

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than anything I have ever done; it is a far, far, better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. - Charles Dickens | Death and Dying Quotes

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. - Charles Dickens | Deception Quotes

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. - Charles Dickens | Law and Lawyers Quotes

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind. - Charles Dickens | Memory Quotes

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. - Charles Dickens | The Mind Quotes

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off. - Charles Dickens | Mistakes and Blunders Quotes

He had but one eye, and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two. - Charles Dickens | Personal Appearance Quotes

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. - Charles Dickens | Personal Appearance Quotes

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Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. - Charles Dickens | Solitude Quotes

"It was as true", said Mr. Barkus, "as taxes is. And nothing is truer than them." - Charles Dickens | Truth Quotes

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many-not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. - Charles Dickens | Regrets Quotes

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. - Charles Dickens | Forgiveness Quotes

Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place, his work noiseless, and his hands are mutes. - Charles Dickens | One Day Quotes

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. - Charles Dickens | Getting Going Quotes

God bless us every one. - Charles Dickens | Blessing Quotes

I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression. - Charles Dickens | Expectation Quotes

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows. - Charles Dickens | Fate Quotes

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Once a gentleman, always a gentleman. - Charles Dickens | Gentleman Quotes

'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be. - Charles Dickens | Humility Quotes

"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is a ass, a idiot." - Charles Dickens | Law Quotes

"It was as true," said Mr. Barkis,... "as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them." - Charles Dickens | Trust Quotes

I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen. - Charles Dickens | Virtue Quotes

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Confucius Quotes and Quotations

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. - Confucius | Action Quotes

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius | Music Quotes

The way of a superior man is threefold: Virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear. - Confucius | Happiness Quotes

The grass must bend when the wind blows across it. - Confucius | Acceptance Quotes

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. - Confucius | Forgiveness Quotes

Have no friends not equal to yourself. - Confucius | Friendship Quotes

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. - Confucius | Simplicity Quotes

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later. - Confucius | Courage Quotes

To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage. - Confucius | Courage Quotes

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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. - Confucius | Courage Quotes

To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage. - Confucius | Success Quotes

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions. - Confucius | Action Quotes

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. - Confucius | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later. - Confucius | Problems Quotes

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake. - Confucius | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. - Confucius | Adversity Quotes

The cautious seldom err. - Confucius | Caution Quotes

He who will not economize will have to agonize. - Confucius | Economy Quotes

The cautious seldom err. - Confucius | Error Quotes

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If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. - Confucius | Foresight Quotes

What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others. - Confucius | Golden Rule Quotes

Heaven means to be one with God. - Confucius | Heaven Quotes

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. - Confucius | Injury Quotes

To lead an untrained people to war is to throw them away. - Confucius | Preparedness Quotes

There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear. - Confucius | Superiority Quotes

Learning without thought is labor lost. - Confucius | Thought Quotes

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D. H. Lawrence Quotes and Quotations

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. - D. H. Lawrence | Animals Quotes

Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today. - D. H. Lawrence | Art and the Artist Quotes

The young Cambridge group, the group that stood for "freedom" and flannel trousers and flannel shirts open at the neck, and a well-bred sort of emotional anarchy, and a whispering, murmuring, sort of voice, and an ultra-sensitive sort of manner. - D. H. Lawrence | England and the U.K. Quotes

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. - D. H. Lawrence | Life Quotes

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language. - D. H. Lawrence | Literature Quotes

Never trust the teller. Trust the tale. - D. H. Lawrence | Trust Quotes

Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit? - D. H. Lawrence | Friendship Quotes

While we live, let us live. - D. H. Lawrence | One Day Quotes

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One realm we have never conquered: the pure present. - D. H. Lawrence | The Present Quotes

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. - D. H. Lawrence | The Future Quotes

In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade. - D. H. Lawrence | Boring Days Quotes

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. - D. H. Lawrence | Enthusiasm Quotes

It is our business to go as we are impelled. - D. H. Lawrence | Instincts Quotes

The mind can assert anything, and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. - D. H. Lawrence | Instincts Quotes

What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. - D. H. Lawrence | Instincts Quotes

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them. - D. H. Lawrence | Courage Quotes

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them. - D. H. Lawrence | Courage Quotes

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You have striven so hard, and so long, to compel life. Can't you now slowly change, and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you. - D. H. Lawrence | Action Quotes

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges or scrub the floor. - D. H. Lawrence | Self-Pity Quotes

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself. - D. H. Lawrence | Self-Pity Quotes

Love is. the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. - D. H. Lawrence | Beginnings Quotes

I never knew how soothing trees are�many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being. - D. H. Lawrence | Nature Quotes

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Dorothy Parker Quotes and Quotations

They sicken of the calm that know the storm. - Dorothy Parker | Adversity Quotes

Where, unwilling, dies the rose, Buds the new, another year. - Dorothy Parker | Birth Quotes

Poisons pain you; Rivers are damp; Acid stains you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live. - Dorothy Parker | Death and Dying Quotes

It cost me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha, my little dear' I say, 'Your clan will pay me back one day.' - Dorothy Parker | Death and Dying Quotes

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery. - Dorothy Parker | Men and Women Quotes

They sicken of the calm who know the storm. - Dorothy Parker | Peace Quotes

Where's the man could ease the heart Like a satin gown? - Dorothy Parker | Personal Appearance Quotes

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. - Dorothy Parker | Quips and Comments Quotes

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it. - Dorothy Parker | Quips and Comments Quotes

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I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn. - Dorothy Parker | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. - Dorothy Parker | Wit Quotes

The two most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker | Words and Language Quotes

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship. - Dorothy Parker | Friendship Quotes

Scratch a lover, and find a foe. - Dorothy Parker | Friendship Quotes

There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths. - Dorothy Parker | Risks Quotes

Work is the province of cattle. - Dorothy Parker | Work Quotes

They sicken of calm, who know the storm. - Dorothy Parker | Adversity Quotes

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. - Dorothy Parker | Beginnings Quotes

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Lips that taste of tears, they say are the best for kissing. - Dorothy Parker | Heartbreak Quotes

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant� and let the air out of the tires. - Dorothy Parker | Family Quotes

She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age. - Dorothy Parker | Vices and Foibles Quotes

Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses. - Dorothy Parker | Flirtation Quotes

Women and elephants never forget. - Dorothy Parker | Memory Quotes

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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes and Quotations

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. - Edgar Allan Poe | Happiness Quotes

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. - Edgar Allan Poe | Happiness Quotes

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. - Edgar Allan Poe | Positive Quotes

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it. - Edgar Allan Poe | Right Quotes

Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed. - Edgar Allan Poe | Adversity Quotes

And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming Throws his shadow on the floor, And my soul from out that shadow, That lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted�nevermore. - Edgar Allan Poe | Birds Quotes

The glory that was Greece. - Edgar Allan Poe | Greece Quotes

On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, they classic face, Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. - Edgar Allan Poe | Italy Quotes

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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. - Edgar Allan Poe | Midnight Quotes

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. - Edgar Allan Poe | Poetry Quotes

Of puns it has been said that those most dislike who are least able to utter them. - Edgar Allan Poe | Pun Quotes

The grandeur that was Rome. - Edgar Allan Poe | Rome Quotes

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Edmund Burke Quotes and Quotations

Ambition can creep as well as soar. - Edmund Burke | Ability and Achievement Quotes

Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy. - Edmund Burke | Capitalism Quotes

Custom reconciles us to everything. - Edmund Burke | Habit and Tradition Quotes

You can never plan the future by the past. - Edmund Burke | The Future Quotes

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar. - Edmund Burke | Goals and Ambition Quotes

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn. - Edmund Burke | History and Historians Quotes

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. - Edmund Burke | Liberty and Human Rights Quotes

By gnawing through a dyke, even a rat may drown a nation. - Edmund Burke | Minorities Quotes

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. - Edmund Burke | Politicians Quotes

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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. - Edmund Burke | Politicians Quotes

Ambition can creep as well as soar. - Edmund Burke | Progress Quotes

A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival. - Edmund Burke | Revolution and Reform Quotes

By gnawing through a dyke, even a rat may drown a nation. - Edmund Burke | Revolution and Reform Quotes

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own. - Edmund Burke | Religion Quotes

All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. - Edmund Burke | Ruin Quotes

You cannot plan the future by the past. - Edmund Burke | The Future Quotes

Dangers by being despised grow great. - Edmund Burke | Positive Quotes

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke | Role Models Quotes

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. - Edmund Burke | Fear Quotes

No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. - Edmund Burke | Fear Quotes

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false reptile prudence, the result, not of caution, but of fear. - Edmund Burke | Other Ways to Overcome Fear Quotes

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. - Edmund Burke | Worry Quotes

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. - Edmund Burke | Work Quotes

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. - Edmund Burke | Time Quotes

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper. - Edmund Burke | Adversity Quotes

Adversity is a severe instructor. ... He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. - Edmund Burke | Adversity Quotes

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. - Edmund Burke | Events Quotes

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. - Edmund Burke | Clergyman Quotes

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All government�indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act�is founded on compromise and barter. - Edmund Burke | Compromise Quotes

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. - Edmund Burke | Government Quotes

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets. - Edmund Burke | Grave Quotes

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us. - Edmund Burke | Ingratitude Quotes

The cold neutrality of an impartial judge. - Edmund Burke | Judge Quotes

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. - Edmund Burke | Liberty Quotes

The cold neutrality of an impartial judge. - Edmund Burke | Neutrality Quotes

Queen of arts, and daughter of heaven. - Edmund Burke | Philosophy Quotes

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. - Edmund Burke | Posterity Quotes

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What shadows we are, what shadows we pursue! - Edmund Burke | Shadow Quotes

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. - Edmund Burke | Superstition Quotes

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. - Edmund Burke | Tyranny Quotes

War never leaves, where it found a nation. - Edmund Burke | War Quotes

The wisdom of our ancestors. - Edmund Burke | Wise Quotes

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words. - Edmund Burke | Word Quotes

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes and Quotations

Light tomorrow with today! - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The Future Quotes

Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Writers and Writing Quotes

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face. A gauntlet with a gift in't. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Prayer Quotes

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true! - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Self-Acceptance Quotes

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Self-Confidence Quotes

And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | One Day Quotes

Light tomorrow with today. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The Present Quotes

Light tomorrow with today. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The Present Quotes

Until they are of the age to use the brain. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Success Quotes

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Let no one 'til his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out, and the labor done: Then bring your gauges. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

True knowledge comes only through suffering. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Adversity Quotes

Who so loves, believes the impossible. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Introspection Quotes

Love doesn't make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Life Quotes

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | True Love Quotes

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Change Quotes

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Corruption Quotes

Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | England Quotes

Good, to forgive; Best, to forget. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Forgiveness Quotes

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God's in His Heaven� All's right with the world! - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Glory Quotes

Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, "Italy." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Italy Quotes

Oh, to be in England Now that April's there. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Months Quotes

I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me, I want to be forgotten even by God. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Obscurity Quotes

The year's at the Spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hillside's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his Heaven� All's right with the world! - Elizabeth Barrett Browning | World Quotes

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Emily Dickinson Quotes and Quotations

Anger as soon as fed is dead - Tis starving makes it fat. - Emily Dickinson | Anger Quotes

Dying is a wild night and a new road. - Emily Dickinson | Death and Dying Quotes

Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me - The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. - Emily Dickinson | Death and Dying Quotes

Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing. - Emily Dickinson | Fame and Celebrities Quotes

Eden is that old-fashioned House We dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode Until we drive away. - Emily Dickinson | Happiness Quotes

For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. - Emily Dickinson | Happiness Quotes

The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, anytime, to him Is aristocracy. - Emily Dickinson | Heredity Quotes

Where thou art, that, is Home. - Emily Dickinson | The Home Quotes

'Hope' is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without words And never stops - at all. - Emily Dickinson | Hope Quotes

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To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee one clover, and a bee, and revery The revery alone will do, if bees are few. - Emily Dickinson | Imagination Quotes

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell. - Emily Dickinson | Meetings and Partings Quotes

Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it proved, it proves too There was no Melody. - Emily Dickinson | Time Quotes

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. - Emily Dickinson | Happiness Quotes

The mere sense of living is joy enough. - Emily Dickinson | Happiness Quotes

Where thou art, that is home. - Emily Dickinson | Happiness Quotes

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day without suspecting our abode until we drive away. - Emily Dickinson | Happiness Quotes

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away. - Emily Dickinson | Happiness Quotes

Anger as soon as fed is dead, 'tis starving makes it fat. - Emily Dickinson | Forgiveness Quotes

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Anger as soon as fed is dead, 'tis starving makes it fat. - Emily Dickinson | Forgiveness Quotes

The mere sense of living is joy enough. - Emily Dickinson | Forgiveness Quotes

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive away. - Emily Dickinson | Forgiveness Quotes

My friends are my estate. - Emily Dickinson | Forgiveness Quotes

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. - Emily Dickinson | Other Side Quotes

We turn not older with years, but newer every day. - Emily Dickinson | Other Side Quotes

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. - Emily Dickinson | Helping Other People Quotes

The hearts that never lean must fall. - Emily Dickinson | Helping Other People Quotes

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. - Emily Dickinson | Helping Other People Quotes

My only sketch, profile, of heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June-and in it are my friends-every one of them. - Emily Dickinson | Friendship Quotes

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Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. - Emily Dickinson | Self-Acceptance Quotes

Sunrise: day's great progenitor. - Emily Dickinson | Mornings Quotes

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson | Hope Quotes

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson | Hope Quotes

The brain is wider than the sky. - Emily Dickinson | Goals Quotes

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. - Emily Dickinson | Risks Quotes

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. - Emily Dickinson | Success Quotes

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. - Emily Dickinson | Luck Quotes

Superiority to fate is difficult to gain, 'tis not conferred of any, but possible to earn. - Emily Dickinson | Luck Quotes

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The mere sense of living is joy enough. - Emily Dickinson | Time Quotes

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. - Emily Dickinson | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

A wounded deer leaps the highest. - Emily Dickinson | Adversity Quotes

He disposes Doom who hath suffered him. - Emily Dickinson | Adversity Quotes

He disposes Doom who hath suffered him. - Emily Dickinson | Adversity Quotes

Glee! The great storm is over! - Emily Dickinson | Worthy Victories Quotes

Love is anterior to life Posterior to death Initial of creation, and The exponent of breath. - Emily Dickinson | Life Quotes

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. - Emily Dickinson | Success Quotes

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Erma Bombeck Quotes and Quotations

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. - Erma Bombeck | Other Side Quotes

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. - Erma Bombeck | Friendship Quotes

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates. - Erma Bombeck | Friendship Quotes

I am not a glutton-I am an explorer of food. - Erma Bombeck | Self-Knowledge Quotes

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows. - Erma Bombeck | Self-Control Quotes

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. - Erma Bombeck | Courage Quotes

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course, I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in. - Erma Bombeck | Women's Movement Quotes

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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." - Erma Bombeck | Commitment Quotes

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. - Erma Bombeck | Companionship Quotes

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint�like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there. - Erma Bombeck | Lighten up Quotes

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone. - Erma Bombeck | Cities and Travel Quotes

Family life got better and we got our car back� as soon as we put "I love Mom" on the license plate. - Erma Bombeck | Family Quotes

I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday? - Erma Bombeck | Family Quotes

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to. - Erma Bombeck | Family Quotes

I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet. - Erma Bombeck | Health Quotes

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere? - Erma Bombeck | Men and Women Quotes

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My mother phones daily to ask, "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no, she adds, "So, if you're not too busy, call me while I'm still alive," . . . and hangs up. - Erma Bombeck | Mothers and Fathers Quotes

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Ernest Hemingway Quotes and Quotations

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you. - Ernest Hemingway | Books and Reading Quotes

You lose it if you talk about it. - Ernest Hemingway | Creation and Creativity Quotes

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over. - Ernest Hemingway | Life Quotes

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway | Mistakes and Blunders Quotes

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man. - Ernest Hemingway | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast. - Ernest Hemingway | Travel and Travellers Quotes

The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it. - Ernest Hemingway | Writers and Writing Quotes

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. - Ernest Hemingway | Writers and Writing Quotes

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His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be. - Ernest Hemingway | Writers and Writing Quotes

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. - Ernest Hemingway | Simplicity Quotes

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. - Ernest Hemingway | Role Models Quotes

Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway | Courage Quotes

Courage is grace under pressure. - Ernest Hemingway | Courage Quotes

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come. - Ernest Hemingway | Getting Going Quotes

Never mistake motion for action. - Ernest Hemingway | Women's Movement Quotes

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it, and not be smashed by it. - Ernest Hemingway | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

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I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes. - Ernest Hemingway | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

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Francis Bacon Quotes and Quotations

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the heroical virtue. - Francis Bacon | Adversity Quotes

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. - Francis Bacon | Beauty Quotes

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. - Francis Bacon | Birth Quotes

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Francis Bacon | Books and Reading Quotes

All rising to great places is by a winding stair. - Francis Bacon | Goals and Ambition Quotes

It is left only to God and to the angels to be lookers on. - Francis Bacon | God Quotes

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. - Francis Bacon | Hope Quotes

A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. - Francis Bacon | Human Relations Quotes

Knowledge is power. - Francis Bacon | Knowledge Quotes

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. - Francis Bacon | Law and Lawyers Quotes

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. - Francis Bacon | Loneliness Quotes

Riches are for spending. - Francis Bacon | Money Quotes

Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread. - Francis Bacon | Money Quotes

Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth. - Francis Bacon | Music Quotes

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. - Francis Bacon | Nature Quotes

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use. - Francis Bacon | Power Quotes

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator. - Francis Bacon | Progress Quotes

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man. - Francis Bacon | Religion Quotes

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I would live to study, not study to live. - Francis Bacon | Scholars and Scholarship Quotes

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. - Francis Bacon | Truth Quotes

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before. - Francis Bacon | Virtue Quotes

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. - Francis Bacon | Happiness Quotes

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. - Francis Bacon | Acceptance Quotes

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. - Francis Bacon | Friendship Quotes

Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts. - Francis Bacon | Friendship Quotes

There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friends, but he grieveth the less. - Francis Bacon | Friendship Quotes

The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. - Francis Bacon | Friendship Quotes

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. - Francis Bacon | Self-Reliance Quotes

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon | Self-Reliance Quotes

Time is the greatest innovator. - Francis Bacon | One Day Quotes

Time is the author of authors. - Francis Bacon | One Day Quotes

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they see nothing but sea. - Francis Bacon | Difficult Days Quotes

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. - Francis Bacon | Change Quotes

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. - Francis Bacon | Change Quotes

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray. - Francis Bacon | Decisions Quotes

Nothing is terrible except fear itself. - Francis Bacon | Fear Quotes

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. - Francis Bacon | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon | Success Quotes

Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. - Francis Bacon | Recognize and Maximize Quotes

If a man looks sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. - Francis Bacon | Opportunity Quotes

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon | Opportunities Quotes

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. - Francis Bacon | Work Quotes

Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. - Francis Bacon | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. - Francis Bacon | Adversity Quotes

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. - Francis Bacon | Adversity Quotes

The virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in mortals is the heroical virtue. - Francis Bacon | Worthy Victories Quotes

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. - Francis Bacon | Nature Quotes

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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. - Francis Bacon | Anger Quotes

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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes and Quotations

What does not destroy me, makes me strong. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Adversity Quotes

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Architects and Architecture Quotes

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Crime and Punishment Quotes

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Crowds and the Masses Quotes

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Crowds and the Masses Quotes

In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Death and Dying Quotes

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Education Quotes

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god. - Friedrich Nietzsche | God Quotes

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Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy? - Friedrich Nietzsche | Goodness and Giving Quotes

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Greatness Quotes

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Greatness Quotes

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward. - Friedrich Nietzsche | History and Historians Quotes

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Hope Quotes

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Human Relations Quotes

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Humour and Humorists Quotes

Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to he who does not concern us at all. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Indifference and Apathy Quotes

The lie is a condition of life. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Liars and Lying Quotes

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Liberty and Human Rights Quotes

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He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Life Quotes

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Loneliness Quotes

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Memory Quotes

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Men and Women Quotes

When one has not had a good father, one must create one. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Parenthood Quotes

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Politicians Quotes

There are no facts, only interpretations. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Proof and Certainty Quotes

What does not destroy me, makes me strong. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Ruin Quotes

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Sanity and Insanity Quotes

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Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Weariness Quotes

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Thinking and Thought Quotes

When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Virtue Quotes

Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Virtue Quotes

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Wit Quotes

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Wit Quotes

When thou goest to woman, take thy whip. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Women Quotes

Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? - Friedrich Nietzsche | Women Quotes

That which does not kill me makes me stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Forgiveness Quotes

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Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Friendship Quotes

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Friendship Quotes

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Friendship Quotes

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Friendship Quotes

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. - Friedrich Nietzsche | One Day Quotes

Only sick music makes money today. - Friedrich Nietzsche | The Past Quotes

Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Boring Days Quotes

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? - Friedrich Nietzsche | Boring Days Quotes

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Hope Quotes

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Creating Positive Change Quotes

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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Decisions Quotes

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Motivation Quotes

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Goals Quotes

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Goals Quotes

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Courage Quotes

We ought to face our destiny with courage. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Courage Quotes

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Time Quotes

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Family Quotes

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Heartbreak Quotes

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Applause Quotes

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I - Friedrich Nietzsche | Applause Quotes

In the true man there is a child concealed�who wants to play. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Lighten up Quotes

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Lighten up Quotes

What is evil? � Whatever springs from weakness. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Evil Quotes

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Facts Quotes

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man? - Friedrich Nietzsche | Glory Quotes

Insanity in individuals is something rare�but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the ru)e. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Insanity Quotes

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Better know nothing than half-know many things. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Knowledge Quotes

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Laughter Quotes

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him? - Friedrich Nietzsche | Man Quotes

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Morality Quotes

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Power Quotes

Great intellects are skeptical. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Skepticism Quotes

The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part, that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity. - Friedrich Nietzsche | Suicide Quotes

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My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience. - George Bernard Shaw | Aging and Old Age Quotes

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. - George Bernard Shaw | Arguments and Quarrels Quotes

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. - George Bernard Shaw | Arguments and Quarrels Quotes

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. - George Bernard Shaw | Capitalism Quotes

All professions are a conspiracy against the country. - George Bernard Shaw | Capitalism Quotes

Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. - George Bernard Shaw | Character and Personality Quotes

She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw | Conversation Quotes

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself. - George Bernard Shaw | Courage and Bravery Quotes

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. - George Bernard Shaw | Crime and Punishment Quotes

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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man's spirit is devil's work. - George Bernard Shaw | Critics and Criticism Quotes

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. - George Bernard Shaw | Crowds and the Masses Quotes

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. - George Bernard Shaw | Death and Dying Quotes

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his. - George Bernard Shaw | Death and Dying Quotes

I am only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller. - George Bernard Shaw | Drink, Drinking and Drinkers Quotes

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him. - George Bernard Shaw | England and the U.K. Quotes

England and America are two countries separated by the same language. - George Bernard Shaw | England and the U.K. Quotes

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. - George Bernard Shaw | England and the U.K. Quotes

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. - George Bernard Shaw | Experience Quotes

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. - George Bernard Shaw | Experience Quotes

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. - George Bernard Shaw | Fame and Celebrities Quotes

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. - George Bernard Shaw | Fashion Quotes

There is no love sincerer than the love of food. - George Bernard Shaw | Food Quotes

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. - George Bernard Shaw | Fools and Foolishness Quotes

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies. - George Bernard Shaw | God Quotes

My only policy is to profess evil and do good. - George Bernard Shaw | Goodness and Giving Quotes

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw | Government and Rule Quotes

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw | Government and Rule Quotes

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. - George Bernard Shaw | Happiness Quotes

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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. - George Bernard Shaw | Hatred Quotes

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. - George Bernard Shaw | Hell and the Devil Quotes

Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. - George Bernard Shaw | Heroes and Heroism Quotes

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood. - George Bernard Shaw | Heroes and Heroism Quotes

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life. - George Bernard Shaw | The Home Quotes

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity. - George Bernard Shaw | Human Relations Quotes

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice; but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable, but that I was not very lovable myself. - George Bernard Shaw | Human Relations Quotes

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell. - George Bernard Shaw | Idleness Quotes

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw | Liberty and Human Rights Quotes

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap. - George Bernard Shaw | Life Quotes

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. - George Bernard Shaw | Love Quotes

You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself. - George Bernard Shaw | Maturity Quotes

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile. - George Bernard Shaw | Medicine and Sickness Quotes

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad. - George Bernard Shaw | Memory Quotes

One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw | The Mind Quotes

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. - George Bernard Shaw | Morality and Ethics Quotes

Morality is not respectability. - George Bernard Shaw | Morality and Ethics Quotes

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way. - George Bernard Shaw | Music Quotes

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Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons. - George Bernard Shaw | Order and Organization Quotes

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness, for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children. - George Bernard Shaw | Parenthood Quotes

The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty. - George Bernard Shaw | Parenthood Quotes

The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference; to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer. - George Bernard Shaw | Philosophy Quotes

He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw | Politicians Quotes

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount. - George Bernard Shaw | Poverty Quotes

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery. - George Bernard Shaw | Praise and Flattery Quotes

A great devotee of the gospel of getting on. - George Bernard Shaw | Progress Quotes

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw | Progress Quotes

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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity. - George Bernard Shaw | Revolution and Reform Quotes

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but you must get at a man through his own religion, not through yours. - George Bernard Shaw | Religion Quotes

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. - George Bernard Shaw | Religion Quotes

I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it. - George Bernard Shaw | Silence Quotes

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. - George Bernard Shaw | Silence Quotes

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases. - George Bernard Shaw | Speakers and Speeches Quotes

He who can does. He who can't, teaches. - George Bernard Shaw | Teachers and Teaching Quotes

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. - George Bernard Shaw | Travel and Travellers Quotes

England and America are two countries separated by the same language. - George Bernard Shaw | Words and Language Quotes

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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. - George Bernard Shaw | Work Quotes

I work as my father drank. - George Bernard Shaw | Work Quotes

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work. - George Bernard Shaw | Work Quotes

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself. - George Bernard Shaw | Writers and Writing Quotes

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. - George Bernard Shaw | Writers and Writing Quotes

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. - George Bernard Shaw | Youth Quotes

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw | Regrets Quotes

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty. - George Bernard Shaw | Happiness Quotes

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw | Happiness Quotes

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This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. - George Bernard Shaw | Happiness Quotes

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw | Happiness Quotes

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. - George Bernard Shaw | Happiness Quotes

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw | Happiness Quotes

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. - George Bernard Shaw | Acceptance Quotes

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. - George Bernard Shaw | Forgiveness Quotes

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. - George Bernard Shaw | Other Side Quotes

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. - George Bernard Shaw | Helping Other People Quotes

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. - George Bernard Shaw | Friendship Quotes

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Most people do not pray; they only beg. - George Bernard Shaw | Prayer Quotes

Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. - George Bernard Shaw | Self-Control Quotes

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw | Self-Reliance Quotes

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw | Self-Reliance Quotes

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman. - George Bernard Shaw | One Day Quotes

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman. - George Bernard Shaw | One Day Quotes

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. - George Bernard Shaw | Boring Days Quotes

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change. - George Bernard Shaw | Change Quotes

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw | Change Quotes

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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw | Creating Positive Change Quotes

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. - George Bernard Shaw | Instincts Quotes

If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it, you will not enjoy it there. - George Bernard Shaw | Right Quotes

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. - George Bernard Shaw | Motivation Quotes

This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one, instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. - George Bernard Shaw | Goals Quotes

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself. - George Bernard Shaw | Goals Quotes

This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. - George Bernard Shaw | Goals Quotes

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw | Goals Quotes

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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting wellhammered yourself. - George Bernard Shaw | Courage Quotes

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw | Success Quotes

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. - George Bernard Shaw | Success Quotes

Success covers a multitude of blunders. - George Bernard Shaw | Success Quotes

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. - George Bernard Shaw | Adversity Quotes

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. - George Bernard Shaw | Self-Pity Quotes

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. - George Bernard Shaw | Applause Quotes

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. - George Bernard Shaw | Openers and Introductions Quotes

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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw | Happiness Quotes

It is assumed that the woman must wait motionless until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly. - George Bernard Shaw | Love and Marriage Quotes

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. - George Bernard Shaw | Desire Quotes

fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles. - George Bernard Shaw | England Quotes

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. - George Bernard Shaw | England Quotes

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. - George Bernard Shaw | Experience Quotes

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. - George Bernard Shaw | Golden Rule Quotes

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. - George Bernard Shaw | Heaven Quotes

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another. - George Bernard Shaw | Language Quotes

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study. - George Bernard Shaw | Learning Quotes

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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. - George Bernard Shaw | Literature Quotes

The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. - George Bernard Shaw | Love Quotes

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. - George Bernard Shaw | Lying Quotes

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women. - George Bernard Shaw | Marriage Quotes

Hell is full of musical amateurs. - George Bernard Shaw | Music Quotes

A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. - George Bernard Shaw | Pessimism Quotes

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer. - George Bernard Shaw | Philosophy Quotes

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells. - George Bernard Shaw | Prison Quotes

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. - George Bernard Shaw | Shame Quotes

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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do. - George Bernard Shaw | Slavery Quotes

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid. - George Bernard Shaw | Soldier Quotes

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. - George Bernard Shaw | Sport Quotes

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good. - George Bernard Shaw | Temptation Quotes

All great truths began as blasphemies. - George Bernard Shaw | Trust Quotes

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world. - George Bernard Shaw | Trust Quotes

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. - George Bernard Shaw | Virtue Quotes

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. - George Bernard Shaw | Wife Quotes

The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. - George Bernard Shaw | Women Quotes

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Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers. - George Bernard Shaw | Women Quotes

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. - George Bernard Shaw | World Quotes

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It's them that takes advantage that gets advantage i' this world. - George Eliot | Ability and Achievement Quotes

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. - George Eliot | Animals Quotes

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot | Bores and Boredom Quotes

Necessity does the work of courage. - George Eliot | Courage and Bravery Quotes

What makes life dreary is want of motive. - George Eliot | Indifference and Apathy Quotes

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust. - George Eliot | Loneliness Quotes

Men's men: be they gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness. - George Eliot | Men Quotes

Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me. - George Eliot | Music Quotes

There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself. - George Eliot | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

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Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs. - George Eliot | Silence Quotes

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot | Speakers and Speeches Quotes

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. - George Eliot | Friendship in Bad Times Quotes

'Tis what I love determines how I love. - George Eliot | Happiness Quotes

Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly. - George Eliot | Forgiveness Quotes

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. - George Eliot | Other Side Quotes

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart. - George Eliot | Other Side Quotes

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. - George Eliot | Other Side Quotes

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? - George Eliot | Helping Other People Quotes

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Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. - George Eliot | Helping Other People Quotes

Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another! - George Eliot | Helping Other People Quotes

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! - George Eliot | Friendship Quotes

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. - George Eliot | Friendship Quotes

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. - George Eliot | Friendship Quotes

Animals are such agreeable friends- they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. - George Eliot | Friendship Quotes

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to revere. - George Eliot | God Quotes

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? - George Eliot | Faith and Unity Quotes

Those who trust us educate us. - George Eliot | Faith and Unity Quotes

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection. - George Eliot | Self-Control Quotes

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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot | Self-Control Quotes

Might, could, would-they are contemptible auxiliaries. - George Eliot | Self-Confidence Quotes

Time, like money, is measured by our needs. - George Eliot | One Day Quotes

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day. - George Eliot | One Day Quotes

It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop. - George Eliot | The Past Quotes

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. - George Eliot | The Past Quotes

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. - George Eliot | Positive Quotes

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. - George Eliot | Positive Quotes

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. - George Eliot | Positive Quotes

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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. - George Eliot | Positive Quotes

It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot | Positive Quotes

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them. - George Eliot | Visualization Quotes

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. - George Eliot | Change Quotes

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. - George Eliot | Decisions Quotes

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it. - George Eliot | Decisions Quotes

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. - George Eliot | Decisions Quotes

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. - George Eliot | Decisions Quotes

What makes life dreary is want of motive. - George Eliot | Motivation Quotes

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them. - George Eliot | Motivation Quotes

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Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through. - George Eliot | Realistic Expectations Quotes

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth. - George Eliot | Realistic Expectations Quotes

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen. - George Eliot | Realistic Expectations Quotes

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. - George Eliot | Realistic Expectations Quotes

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little. - George Eliot | Goals Quotes

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. - George Eliot | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning. - George Eliot | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning. - George Eliot | Courage Quotes

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will have it if they cannot find it. - George Eliot | Getting Going Quotes

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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. - George Eliot | Getting Going Quotes

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. - George Eliot | Perfection Quotes

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio. - George Eliot | Action Quotes

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots. - George Eliot | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. - George Eliot | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. - George Eliot | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. - George Eliot | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

Better a false belief than no belief at all. - George Eliot | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. - George Eliot | Self-Pity Quotes

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief that does not find relief in music. - George Eliot | Applause Quotes

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Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, pass no criticisms. - George Eliot | Animals Quotes

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? - George Eliot | Distrust Quotes

Animals are such agreeable friends�they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. - George Eliot | Friends Quotes

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. - George Eliot | Hope Quotes

Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again. - George Eliot | Immortality Quotes

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. - George Eliot | Pity Quotes

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. - George Eliot | Self-Love Quotes

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner. - George Eliot | Thrift Quotes

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. - George Eliot | Word Quotes

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George Santayana Quotes and Quotations To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood. - George Santayana | Action Quotes

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him. - George Santayana | Aging and Old Age Quotes

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure. - George Santayana | Aging and Old Age Quotes

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles. - George Santayana | America and Americans Quotes

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them. - George Santayana | Art and the Artist Quotes

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there. - George Santayana | Art and the Artist Quotes

Art is a delayed echo. - George Santayana | Art and the Artist Quotes

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity. - George Santayana | Christians and Christianity Quotes

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Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists. - George Santayana | Civilization Quotes

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself. - George Santayana | Habit and Tradition Quotes

Habit is stronger than reason. - George Santayana | Habit and Tradition Quotes

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves. - George Santayana | Cynicism Quotes

Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility. - George Santayana | Death and Dying Quotes

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. - George Santayana | Education Quotes

England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours. - George Santayana | England and the U.K. Quotes

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots. - George Santayana | Friends and Friendship Quotes

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. - George Santayana | Goodness and Giving Quotes

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Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason. - George Santayana | Government and Rule Quotes

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. - George Santayana | Happiness Quotes

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism. - George Santayana | Happiness Quotes

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. - George Santayana | Happiness Quotes

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana | History and Historians Quotes

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility. - George Santayana | Homo Sapiens Quotes

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence. - George Santayana | Homo Sapiens Quotes

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. - George Santayana | Ideas Quotes

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired. - George Santayana | Illusion Quotes

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There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana | Life Quotes

By nature's kindly disposition, most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. - George Santayana | Nature Quotes

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. - George Santayana | Passion and the Heart Quotes

Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public. - George Santayana | Poets and Poetry Quotes

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it. - George Santayana | Progress Quotes

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. - George Santayana | Religion Quotes

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. - George Santayana | Religion Quotes

Work and love - these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled. - George Santayana | Sanity and Insanity Quotes

If all the arts aspire to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics. - George Santayana | Science and Technology Quotes

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If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation. - George Santayana | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

Before he sets out, the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities, to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander, ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations. - George Santayana | Travel and Travellers Quotes

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it. - George Santayana | Truth Quotes

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. - George Santayana | Wisdom Quotes

Happiness is the only sanction in life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. - George Santayana | Happiness Quotes

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana | Happiness Quotes

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. - George Santayana | Happiness Quotes

There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana | Acceptance Quotes

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt. - George Santayana | Forgiveness Quotes

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Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. - George Santayana | Helping Other People Quotes

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. - George Santayana | Friendship Quotes

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots. - George Santayana | Friendship Quotes

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. - George Santayana | Friendship Quotes

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the part known gives us evidence enough that the unknown part cannot be much amiss. - George Santayana | Friendship Quotes

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. - George Santayana | Prayer Quotes

There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana | Simplicity Quotes

There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana | Simplicity Quotes

Habit is stronger than reason. - George Santayana | One Day Quotes

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A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present. - George Santayana | The Past Quotes

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana | The Past Quotes

In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity. - George Santayana | Change Quotes

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway. - George Santayana | Instincts Quotes

It is wisdom to believe the heart. - George Santayana | Instincts Quotes

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. - George Santayana | Realistic Expectations Quotes

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. - George Santayana | Realistic Expectations Quotes

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana | Goals Quotes

Wisdom comes by disillusionment. - George Santayana | Adversity Quotes

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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. - George Santayana | Beauty Quotes

There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana | Lighten up Quotes

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana | Past Quotes

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out, and minutely articulated. - George Santayana | Science Quotes

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George Washington Quotes and Quotations

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force. - George Washington | Government and Rule Quotes

To persevere in one's duty and be silent, is the best answer to calumny. - George Washington | Insults and Calumny Quotes

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office. - George Washington | Politicians Quotes

I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it. - George Washington | The Presidency Quotes

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. - George Washington | Virtue Quotes

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. - George Washington | Happiness Quotes

Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. - George Washington | Friendship Quotes

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence. - George Washington | Friendship Quotes

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Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. - George Washington | Friendship Quotes

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. - George Washington | Goals Quotes

Action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. - George Washington | Getting Going Quotes

We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times. - George Washington | Events Quotes

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. - George Washington | Bribery Quotes

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. - George Washington | Confidence Quotes

True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. - George Washington | Friendship Quotes

It [gaming] is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. - George Washington | Gambling Quotes

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. - George Washington | Government Quotes

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I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an "Honest Man." - George Washington | Honesty Quotes

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. - George Washington | Peace Quotes

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. - George Washington | Preparedness Quotes

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution. - George Washington | Presidency Quotes

Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise. - George Washington | Promise Quotes

Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. - George Washington | Reputation Quotes

Heaven itself has ordained the right. - George Washington | Right Quotes

'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world�as far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it. - George Washington | Statesmanship Quotes

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. - George Washington | Tyranny Quotes

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Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes and Quotations

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Action Quotes

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Aging and Old Age Quotes

Every life is a possession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Conviction and Belief Quotes

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Critics and Criticism Quotes

Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Genius Quotes

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Knowledge Quotes

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Life Quotes

Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Passion and the Heart Quotes

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat; that is progress. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Progress Quotes

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Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Reason Quotes

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Happiness Quotes

To repel one's cross is to make it heavier. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Acceptance Quotes

To repel one's cross is to make it heavier. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Acceptance Quotes

Faith is a certitude without proofs ... a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Faith and Unity Quotes

To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be-in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Faith and Unity Quotes

Learn to ... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Self-Acceptance Quotes

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Simplicity Quotes

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Simplicity Quotes

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Time wasted is a theft from God. - Henri Frederic Amiel | One Day Quotes

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits. - Henri Frederic Amiel | One Day Quotes

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Enthusiasm Quotes

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Decisions Quotes

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Instincts Quotes

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour germinates no more. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Instincts Quotes

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Instincts Quotes

Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Instincts Quotes

Learn to ... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Realistic Expectations Quotes

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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes

We must have the courage to be happy. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Courage Quotes

How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. ... By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Courage Quotes

For purposes of action, nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Getting Going Quotes

How, then, find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Getting Going Quotes

Almost everything comes from almost nothing. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Time Quotes

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Problems Quotes

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Age Quotes

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. - Henri Frederic Amiel | Cleverness Quotes

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Henry David Thoreau Quotes and Quotations

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. - Henry David Thoreau | Ability and Achievement Quotes

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau | Ability and Achievement Quotes

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact. - Henry David Thoreau | Action Quotes

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail. - Henry David Thoreau | Advice Quotes

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter. - Henry David Thoreau | Capitalism Quotes

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. - Henry David Thoreau | Capitalism Quotes

City life - millions of people being lonesome together. - Henry David Thoreau | The City and the Country Quotes

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. - Henry David Thoreau | Enjoyment and Pleasure Quotes

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Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. - Henry David Thoreau | Enjoyment and Pleasure Quotes

Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced. - Henry David Thoreau | Experience Quotes

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new. - Henry David Thoreau | Fashion Quotes

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins. - Henry David Thoreau | Friends and Friendship Quotes

If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. - Henry David Thoreau | Goodness and Giving Quotes

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours. - Henry David Thoreau | Innocence Quotes

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. - Henry David Thoreau | Knowledge Quotes

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes. - Henry David Thoreau | Medicine and Sickness Quotes

A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone. - Henry David Thoreau | Money Quotes

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What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. - Henry David Thoreau | Morality and Ethics Quotes

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you. - Henry David Thoreau | Morality and Ethics Quotes

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. - Henry David Thoreau | Morality and Ethics Quotes

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. - Henry David Thoreau | Nature Quotes

The bluebird carries the sky on his back. - Henry David Thoreau | Nature Quotes

The eye is the jewel of the body. - Henry David Thoreau | Observation Quotes

Colour, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science. - Henry David Thoreau | Poets and Poetry Quotes

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel. - Henry David Thoreau | Politics Quotes

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots. - Henry David Thoreau | Revolution and Reform Quotes

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Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are. - Henry David Thoreau | Society and Social Quotes

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. - Henry David Thoreau | Solitude Quotes

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau | Success Quotes

I have travelled a good deal in Concord. - Henry David Thoreau | Travel and Travellers Quotes

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. - Henry David Thoreau | Trust Quotes

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love. - Henry David Thoreau | Truth Quotes

It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hear. - Henry David Thoreau | Truth Quotes

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. - Henry David Thoreau | Wisdom Quotes

Beware all enterprises that require new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau | Work Quotes

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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. - Henry David Thoreau | Writers and Writing Quotes

We like that a sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end. - Henry David Thoreau | Writers and Writing Quotes

As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground. - Henry David Thoreau | Writers and Writing Quotes

The youth gets together this material to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance, a palace or temple on earth, and at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. - Henry David Thoreau | Youth Quotes

Man is the artificer of his own happiness. - Henry David Thoreau | Happiness Quotes

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. - Henry David Thoreau | Acceptance Quotes

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him. - Henry David Thoreau | Acceptance Quotes

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life. - Henry David Thoreau | Forgiveness Quotes

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. - Henry David Thoreau | Forgiveness Quotes

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A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone. - Henry David Thoreau | Forgiveness Quotes

Goodness is the only investment that never fails. - Henry David Thoreau | Helping Other People Quotes

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. - Henry David Thoreau | Friendship Quotes

There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness. - Henry David Thoreau | Friendship Quotes

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins. - Henry David Thoreau | Friendship Quotes

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau | Friendship Quotes

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God. - Henry David Thoreau | God Quotes

We must have infinite faith in each other. - Henry David Thoreau | Faith and Unity Quotes

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. - Henry David Thoreau | Self-Knowledge Quotes

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What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate. - Henry David Thoreau | Self-Acceptance Quotes

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? - Henry David Thoreau | Self-Acceptance Quotes

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau | Self-Confidence Quotes

Man is the artificer of his own happiness. - Henry David Thoreau | Self-Reliance Quotes

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand. ... Simplify, simplify. - Henry David Thoreau | Simplicity Quotes

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. - Henry David Thoreau | One Day Quotes

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. - Henry David Thoreau | One Day Quotes

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. - Henry David Thoreau | One Day Quotes

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life. - Henry David Thoreau | This Moment Quotes

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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. - Henry David Thoreau | Mornings Quotes

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau | Positive Quotes

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise. - Henry David Thoreau | Positive Quotes

What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate. - Henry David Thoreau | Positive Quotes

Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown. - Henry David Thoreau | Positive Quotes

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau | Positive Quotes

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. - Henry David Thoreau | Enthusiasm Quotes

Things do not change; we change. - Henry David Thoreau | Change Quotes

Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown. - Henry David Thoreau | Right Quotes

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. - Henry David Thoreau | Realistic Expectations Quotes

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Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? - Henry David Thoreau | Realistic Expectations Quotes

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? - Henry David Thoreau | Realistic Expectations Quotes

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. - Henry David Thoreau | Goals Quotes

In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fall immediately, they had better aim at something high. - Henry David Thoreau | Goals Quotes

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau | Goals Quotes

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. - Henry David Thoreau | Fear Quotes

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. - Henry David Thoreau | Courage Quotes

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact. - Henry David Thoreau | Courage Quotes

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor. - Henry David Thoreau | Courage Quotes

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau | Success Quotes

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor. - Henry David Thoreau | Success Quotes

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau | Success Quotes

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. - Henry David Thoreau | Work Quotes

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau | Work Quotes

Whate'er we leave to God, God does and blesses us. - Henry David Thoreau | Action Quotes

Gnaw your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, gnaw it still. - Henry David Thoreau | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction. - Henry David Thoreau | Self-Pity Quotes

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. - Henry David Thoreau | Applause Quotes

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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. - Henry David Thoreau | Family Quotes

Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody. - Henry David Thoreau | Family Quotes

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. - Henry David Thoreau | Nature Quotes

The bluebird carries the sky on his back. - Henry David Thoreau | Nature Quotes

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms, and did my duty faithfully, though I never received one cent for it. - Henry David Thoreau | Nature Quotes

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. - Henry David Thoreau | Spirituality Quotes

Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction. - Henry David Thoreau | Compliment Quotes

Water is the only drink for a wise man. - Henry David Thoreau | Drinking Quotes

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. - Henry David Thoreau | Evidence Quotes

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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. - Henry David Thoreau | Cowardice Quotes

Man is the artificer of his own happiness. - Henry David Thoreau | Happiness Quotes

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. - Henry David Thoreau | Independence Quotes

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. - Henry David Thoreau | Letter Quotes

Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau | Machine Quotes

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. - Henry David Thoreau | Money Quotes

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. - Henry David Thoreau | Morality Quotes

When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable, and to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place� a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow of Nature. - Henry David Thoreau | Nature Quotes

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. - Henry David Thoreau | Perseverance Quotes

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It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest. - Henry David Thoreau | Poverty Quotes

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. - Henry David Thoreau | Prison Quotes

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it. - Henry David Thoreau | Property Quotes

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it. - Henry David Thoreau | Property Quotes

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. - Henry David Thoreau | Reading Quotes

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. - Henry David Thoreau | Riches Quotes

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. - Henry David Thoreau | Solitude Quotes

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully. - Henry David Thoreau | Storm Quotes

It takes two to speak the truth�one to speak, and another to hear. - Henry David Thoreau | Trust Quotes

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Henry Ford Quotes and Quotations

It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages. - Henry Ford | Capitalism Quotes

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. - Henry Ford | Crime and Punishment Quotes

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford | History and Historians Quotes

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. - Henry Ford | Knowledge Quotes

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accom plished something. - Henry Ford | Happiness Quotes

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. - Henry Ford | Helping Other People Quotes

We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today. - Henry Ford | The Present Quotes

Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right. - Henry Ford | Positive Quotes

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible. - Henry Ford | Positive Quotes

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The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence. - Henry Ford | Decisions Quotes

The question "Who ought to be boss" is like asking "Who ought to be tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. - Henry Ford | Right Quotes

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. - Henry Ford | Goals Quotes

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. - Henry Ford | Goals Quotes

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. - Henry Ford | Security Quotes

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. - Henry Ford | Success Quotes

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. - Henry Ford | Success Quotes

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. - Henry Ford | Time Quotes

Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently. - Henry Ford | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

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One who fears failure limits his activities. - Henry Ford | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. - Henry Ford | Spirituality Quotes

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Henry Kissinger Quotes and Quotations

Now when I bore people at a party, they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger | Fame and Celebrities Quotes

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. - Henry Kissinger | Government and Rule Quotes

The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. - Henry Kissinger | History and Historians Quotes

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence, a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either. - Henry Kissinger | Intelligence Quotes

90% of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger | Politicians Quotes

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. - Henry Kissinger | Politics Quotes

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. - Henry Kissinger | Power Quotes

The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer. - Henry Kissinger | Power Quotes

A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose. - Henry Kissinger | War Quotes

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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. - Henry Kissinger | Writers and Writing Quotes

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, who he assumes to have perfect vision. - Henry Kissinger | Other Side Quotes

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. - Henry Kissinger | Decisions Quotes

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. - Henry Kissinger | Decisions Quotes

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. - Henry Kissinger | Realistic Expectations Quotes

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. - Henry Kissinger | Success and Happiness Quotes

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. - Henry Kissinger | Success Quotes

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. - Henry Kissinger | Concentration Quotes

I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency, it will be okay. - Henry Kissinger | Openers and Introductions Quotes

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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger | Success Quotes

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Henry Miller Quotes and Quotations

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. - Henry Miller | Crime and Punishment Quotes

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it. - Henry Miller | Fate and Destiny Quotes

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement. - Henry Miller | Life Quotes

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love. - Henry Miller | Love Quotes

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth. - Henry Miller | Writers and Writing Quotes

The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment. - Henry Miller | Peace of Mind Quotes

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. - Henry Miller | Peace of Mind Quotes

The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. - Henry Miller | Acceptance Quotes

We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior. - Henry Miller | Self-Reliance Quotes

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We create our fate every day we live. - Henry Miller | One Day Quotes

We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior. - Henry Miller | Positive Quotes

Example moves the world more than doctrine. - Henry Miller | Role Models Quotes

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. - Henry Miller | Instincts Quotes

Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. - Henry Miller | Right Quotes

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. - Henry Miller | Security Quotes

The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment. - Henry Miller | Security Quotes

There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action. - Henry Miller | Courage Quotes

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. - Henry Miller | Getting Going Quotes

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The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. - Henry Miller | Getting Going Quotes

We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior. - Henry Miller | Luck Quotes

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act accordingly to their beliefs. - Henry Miller | Commitment and Belief Quotes

Like ships, men flounder time and time again. - Henry Miller | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love. - Henry Miller | Life Quotes

The only artists for whom I would make way are�children. For me the paintings of children belong side by side with the works of the masters. - Henry Miller | Family Quotes

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love. - Henry Miller | Lighten up Quotes

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant. - Henry Miller | Sex Quotes

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes and Quotations

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Ability and Achievement Quotes

Each morning sees some task begun Each evening sees it close. Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Ability and Achievement Quotes

All things must change to something new, to something strange. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Change and Transience Quotes

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The City and the Country Quotes

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life, sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Enemies Quotes

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Goals and Ambition Quotes

The heights by men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Greatness Quotes

In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Homo Sapiens Quotes

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A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Meetings and Partings Quotes

Let the dead Past bury its dead! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Regrets Quotes

Our faith triumphant o'er our fears. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Faith and Fear Quotes

Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Acceptance Quotes

Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Helping Other People Quotes

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Friendship Quotes

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Self-Acceptance Quotes

Time ... is the life of the soul. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | One Day Quotes

Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Past Quotes

Act-act in the living Present! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Present Quotes

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The present is the blocks with which we build. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Present Quotes

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Present Quotes

Today is the blocks with which we build. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Present Quotes

Let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Mornings Quotes

Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Evenings Quotes

Thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Evenings Quotes

Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Future Quotes

Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Future Quotes

Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Difficult Days Quotes

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All things come round to him who will but wait. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Difficult Days Quotes

Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Difficult Days Quotes

Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Hope Quotes

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime; and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Role Models Quotes

All things must change to something new, to something strange. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Change Quotes

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Goals Quotes

Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Courage Quotes

Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Courage Quotes

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Act-act in the living present! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Getting Going Quotes

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Getting Going Quotes

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Success Quotes

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Success Quotes

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Work Quotes

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Time Quotes

Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Time Quotes

Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Time Quotes

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Adversity Quotes

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Events Quotes

Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Applause Quotes

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Lighten up Quotes

The soul ... is audible, not visible. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Spirituality Quotes

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Ability Quotes

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Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, �act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Action Quotes

Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Action Quotes

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining, Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall,� Some days must be dark and dreary. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Affliction Quotes

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Ambition Quotes

Thou, too, sail on, O Shipof State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | America Quotes

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Architecture Quotes

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Biography Quotes

To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Calumny Quotes

The night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Care Quotes

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All things must change To something new, to something strange. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Change Quotes

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Character Quotes

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Character Quotes

There was a little girl, And she had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead; When she was good she was very, very good, When she was bad she was horrid. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Childhood Quotes

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Christmas Quotes

Every dew-drop and raindrop had a whole heaven within it. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Daw Quotes

None but yourself who are your greatest foe. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Enemy Quotes

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Example Quotes

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Future Quotes

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Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Future Quotes

No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Heart Quotes

When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Heaven Quotes

Every human heart is human. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Humanity Quotes

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Judgment Quotes

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Life Quotes

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Mercy Quotes

Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Music Quotes

And the night shall be filled with music And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Night Quotes

The nearer the dawn the darker the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Night Quotes

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Be noble in every thought And in every deed! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Nobility Quotes

All things come round to him who will but wait. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Patience Quotes

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Poet Quotes

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Rain Quotes

Day of the Lord, as all our days should be! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Sabbath Quotes

Ships that pass in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Ships Quotes

God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Song Quotes

Came the Spring with all its splendor All its birds and all its blossoms, All its flowers, and leaves, and grasses. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Spring Quotes

Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Star Quotes

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As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Study Quotes

This is the forest primeval. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Tree Quotes

The world loves a spice of wickedness. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Wickedness Quotes

Oh, the long and dreary Winter! Oh, the cold and cruel Winter! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Winter Quotes

If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Wooing Quotes

Why don't you speak for yourself, John? - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Wooing Quotes

Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Word Quotes

Youth comes but once in a lifetime. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Youth Quotes

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams With its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Youth Quotes

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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes and Quotations

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are. - Henry Ward Beecher | Advertising Quotes

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. - Henry Ward Beecher | Anger Quotes

The dog is the god of frolic. - Henry Ward Beecher | Animals Quotes

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? - Henry Ward Beecher | Books and Reading Quotes

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better. - Henry Ward Beecher | Christians and Christianity Quotes

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. - Henry Ward Beecher | Defeat Quotes

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door. - Henry Ward Beecher | Friends and Friendship Quotes

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. - Henry Ward Beecher | Government and Rule Quotes

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Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top. - Henry Ward Beecher | Homo Sapiens Quotes

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration. - Henry Ward Beecher | Humour and Humorists Quotes

It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it. - Henry Ward Beecher | Law and Lawyers Quotes

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth. - Henry Ward Beecher | Money Quotes

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile, some have a sad expression, some are pensive and diffident, others again are plain, honest and upright. - Henry Ward Beecher | Nature Quotes

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. - Henry Ward Beecher | Parenthood Quotes

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. - Henry Ward Beecher | Personal Appearance Quotes

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. - Henry Ward Beecher | Philosophy Quotes

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a 'but'. - Henry Ward Beecher | Praise and Flattery Quotes

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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. - Henry Ward Beecher | Prayer Quotes

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn. - Henry Ward Beecher | Speakers and Speeches Quotes

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. - Henry Ward Beecher | Temptation Quotes

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. - Henry Ward Beecher | Will and Determination Quotes

No man is more cheated than the selfish man. - Henry Ward Beecher | Happiness Quotes

Happiness is not the end of life; character is. - Henry Ward Beecher | Happiness Quotes

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. - Henry Ward Beecher | Acceptance Quotes

God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. - Henry Ward Beecher | Acceptance Quotes

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one. - Henry Ward Beecher | Forgiveness Quotes

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The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! - Henry Ward Beecher | Forgiveness Quotes

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart... will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings. - Henry Ward Beecher | Forgiveness Quotes

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. - Henry Ward Beecher | Helping Other People Quotes

No man is more cheated than the selfish man. - Henry Ward Beecher | Helping Other People Quotes

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track ... an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity. - Henry Ward Beecher | Helping Other People Quotes

Faith is spiritualized imagination. - Henry Ward Beecher | Faith and Unity Quotes

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. - Henry Ward Beecher | Prayer Quotes

Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which, if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied the man. - Henry Ward Beecher | Prayer Quotes

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. - Henry Ward Beecher | Prayer Quotes

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Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man. - Henry Ward Beecher | Prayer Quotes

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. - Henry Ward Beecher | One Day Quotes

Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it. - Henry Ward Beecher | The Present Quotes

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's. - Henry Ward Beecher | The Present Quotes

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. - Henry Ward Beecher | The Future Quotes

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement. - Henry Ward Beecher | Boring Days Quotes

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart... will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings. - Henry Ward Beecher | Positive Quotes

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. - Henry Ward Beecher | Enthusiasm Quotes

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Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. - Henry Ward Beecher | Change Quotes

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him. - Henry Ward Beecher | Right Quotes

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement. - Henry Ward Beecher | Motivation Quotes

Happiness is not the end of life; character is. - Henry Ward Beecher | Goals Quotes

Fear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying. - Henry Ward Beecher | Other Ways to Overcome Fear Quotes

Fear is the soul's signal for rallying. - Henry Ward Beecher | Other Ways to Overcome Fear Quotes

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting. - Henry Ward Beecher | Risks Quotes

A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him. - Henry Ward Beecher | Opportunities Quotes

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent. - Henry Ward Beecher | Perseverance Quotes

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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. - Henry Ward Beecher | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

Men's best successes come after their disappointments. - Henry Ward Beecher | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. - Henry Ward Beecher | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong. - Henry Ward Beecher | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting. - Henry Ward Beecher | Worthy Victories Quotes

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road. - Henry Ward Beecher | Events Quotes

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. - Henry Ward Beecher | Family Quotes

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. - Henry Ward Beecher | Heart Quotes

The dog is the god of frolic. - Henry Ward Beecher | Peace Quotes

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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way too. - Henry Ward Beecher | Spirituality Quotes

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. - Henry Ward Beecher | Charity Quotes

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes�openly bad and secretly bad. - Henry Ward Beecher | Cynicism Quotes

A church debt is the devil's salary. - Henry Ward Beecher | Debt Quotes

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. - Henry Ward Beecher | Defeat Quotes

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. - Henry Ward Beecher | Doctrine Quotes

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul. - Henry Ward Beecher | Falsehood Quotes

Flowers may beckon towards us, but they speak toward heaven and God. - Henry Ward Beecher | Flowers Quotes

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness. - Henry Ward Beecher | Forgiveness Quotes

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Good-humor makes all things tolerable. - Henry Ward Beecher | Good-Humor Quotes

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others. - Henry Ward Beecher | Influence Quotes

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind. - Henry Ward Beecher | Invention Quotes

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well being of mankind. - Henry Ward Beecher | Machine Quotes

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. - Henry Ward Beecher | Parent Quotes

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. - Henry Ward Beecher | Philosophy Quotes

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting. - Henry Ward Beecher | Victory Quotes

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Homer Quotes and Quotations

A decent boldness ever meets with friends. - Homer | Courage and Bravery Quotes

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. - Homer | Goodness and Giving Quotes

Achilles absent, was Achilles still. - Homer | Leaders and Leadership Quotes

A councillor ought not to sleep the whole night through - a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities. - Homer | Politicians Quotes

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war. - Homer | War Quotes

A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother. - Homer | Friends and Family Quotes

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance. - Homer | Forgiveness Quotes

Two friends-two bodies with one soul inspired. - Homer | Friendship Quotes

The hearts of great men can be changed. - Homer | Creating Positive Change Quotes

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A decent boldness ever meets with friends. - Homer | Courage Quotes

It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad. - Homer | Courage Quotes

'Tis man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success. - Homer | Luck Quotes

'Tis man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success. - Homer | Action Quotes

Achilles absent, was Achilles still. - Homer | Absence Quotes

It is a wise child that knows his own father. - Homer | Childhood Quotes

Far from gay cities, and the way of men. - Homer | City Quotes

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. - Homer | Deception Quotes

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain. - Homer | Fortune Quotes

Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods. - Homer | Gods Quotes

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Light is the task when many share the toil. - Homer | Help Quotes

He held his seat; a friend to human race. - Homer | Humanity Quotes

Labor conquers all things. - Homer | Labor Quotes

Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell. - Homer | Lying Quotes

For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell, whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts. - Homer | Speech Quotes

His speech flowed from his tongue sweeter than honey. - Homer | Speech Quotes

And what so tedious as a twice-told tale. - Homer | Story-Telling Quotes

It is not right to exult over slain men. - Homer | War Quotes

In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare! - Homer | Wise Quotes

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Honore de Balzac Quotes and Quotations

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. - Honore de Balzac | Government and Rule Quotes

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. - Honore de Balzac | Marriage Quotes

A mother who is really a mother is never free. - Honore de Balzac | Parenthood Quotes

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. - Honore de Balzac | Politeness and Manners Quotes

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all. - Honore de Balzac | Will and Determination Quotes

There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain. - Honore de Balzac | Friendship in Bad Times Quotes

All happiness depends on courage and work. - Honore de Balzac | Happiness Quotes

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are. - Honore de Balzac | Forgiveness Quotes

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest. - Honore de Balzac | Forgiveness Quotes

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Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. - Honore de Balzac | Other Side Quotes

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God. - Honore de Balzac | God Quotes

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. - Honore de Balzac | Self-Confidence Quotes

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are. - Honore de Balzac | Positive Quotes

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating. - Honore de Balzac | Hope Quotes

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. - Honore de Balzac | Role Models Quotes

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. - Honore de Balzac | Worry Quotes

All happiness depends on courage and work. - Honore de Balzac | Courage Quotes

Necessity is often the spur to genius. - Honore de Balzac | Adversity Quotes

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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are. - Honore de Balzac | Events Quotes

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. - Honore de Balzac | Beginnings Quotes

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. - Honore de Balzac | True Love Quotes

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. - Honore de Balzac | Husbands Quotes

To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect. - Honore de Balzac | Laughter Quotes

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband. - Honore de Balzac | Marriage Quotes

Modesty is the conscience of the body. - Honore de Balzac | Modesty Quotes

Necessity is often the spur to genius. - Honore de Balzac | Necessity Quotes

If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye! - Honore de Balzac | Painting Quotes

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. - Honore de Balzac | Passion Quotes

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Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad. - Honore de Balzac | World Quotes

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Isaac Watts Quotes and Quotations

Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers, exceed me still. - Isaac Watts | Personal Appearance Quotes

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine. - Isaac Watts | Forgiveness Quotes

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, our own meditation must form our judgement. - Isaac Watts | Self-Reliance Quotes

Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head. - Isaac Watts | Babyhood Quotes

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower. - Isaac Watts | Bee Quotes

One glance of Thine creates a day. - Isaac Watts | Day Quotes

Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound. - Isaac Watts | Grave Quotes

For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. - Isaac Watts | Idleness Quotes

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Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head. - Isaac Watts | Lullaby Quotes

Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber! Holy angels guard they bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head. - Isaac Watts | Sleep Quotes

Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound. - Isaac Watts | Sound Quotes

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James Russell Lowell Quotes and Quotations

There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. - James Russell Lowell | Arguments and Quarrels Quotes

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! - James Russell Lowell | Books and Reading Quotes

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak. - James Russell Lowell | Creation and Creativity Quotes

Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write, can surely review. - James Russell Lowell | Critics and Criticism Quotes

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is. - James Russell Lowell | Genius Quotes

God'll send the bill to you. - James Russell Lowell | God Quotes

The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch. - James Russell Lowell | Opinion Quotes

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. - James Russell Lowell | Opinion Quotes

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough. - James Russell Lowell | Politeness and Manners Quotes

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A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard. - James Russell Lowell | Politicians Quotes

Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you, which is a great comfort in the long run. - James Russell Lowell | The Seasons Quotes

May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind. - James Russell Lowell | The Seasons Quotes

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people. - James Russell Lowell | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russell Lowell | Solitude Quotes

Though old the thought and oft exprest, 'tis his at last who says it best. - James Russell Lowell | Speakers and Speeches Quotes

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough. - James Russell Lowell | Wisdom Quotes

The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage. - James Russell Lowell | Wisdom Quotes

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. - James Russell Lowell | Acceptance Quotes

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Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed ... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons. - James Russell Lowell | Forgiveness Quotes

Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in. - James Russell Lowell | God Quotes

Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever! - James Russell Lowell | God Quotes

Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. - James Russell Lowell | Faith and Unity Quotes

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weather is that which is woven of conviction. - James Russell Lowell | Faith and Unity Quotes

I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God. - James Russell Lowell | Prayer Quotes

One day, with life and heart, is more than time enough to find a world. - James Russell Lowell | One Day Quotes

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light. - James Russell Lowell | This Moment Quotes

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly. - James Russell Lowell | Mornings Quotes

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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change. - James Russell Lowell | Change Quotes

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; then let it come. - James Russell Lowell | Change Quotes

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. - James Russell Lowell | Creating Positive Change Quotes

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light. - James Russell Lowell | Decisions Quotes

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself - James Russell Lowell | Right Quotes

Not failure, but low aim, is crime. - James Russell Lowell | Goals Quotes

The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. - James Russell Lowell | Worry Quotes

Fate loves the fearless. - James Russell Lowell | Courage Quotes

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. - James Russell Lowell | Getting Going Quotes

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes. - James Russell Lowell | Success Quotes

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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. - James Russell Lowell | Luck Quotes

In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?" - James Russell Lowell | Time Quotes

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls. - James Russell Lowell | Applause Quotes

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak. - James Russell Lowell | Creativity Quotes

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. - James Russell Lowell | Lighten up Quotes

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. - James Russell Lowell | Action Quotes

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. - James Russell Lowell | Cheerfulness Quotes

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. - James Russell Lowell | Compromise Quotes

Nature they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote. - James Russell Lowell | Creation Quotes

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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. - James Russell Lowell | Experience Quotes

The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman. - James Russell Lowell | Fools Quotes

Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge. - James Russell Lowell | Genius Quotes

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers. - James Russell Lowell | Intolerance Quotes

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. - James Russell Lowell | Misfortune Quotes

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. - James Russell Lowell | Months Quotes

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. - James Russell Lowell | Opinion Quotes

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins. - James Russell Lowell | Pride Quotes

Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it. - James Russell Lowell | Silence Quotes

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They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. - James Russell Lowell | Slavery Quotes

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russell Lowell | Solitude Quotes

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. - James Russell Lowell | Talk Quotes

Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne. - James Russell Lowell | Trust Quotes

Ez for war, I call it murder,� There you hev it plain and flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that. - James Russell Lowell | War Quotes

Earth's noblest thing, a Woman perfected. - James Russell Lowell | Women Quotes

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil! - James Russell Lowell | Work Quotes

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. - James Russell Lowell | Wrong Quotes

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Jean de la Fontaine Quotes and Quotations

Rather suffer than die is man's motto. - Jean de la Fontaine | Death and Dying Quotes

One returns to the place one came from. - Jean de la Fontaine | Life Quotes

Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury. - Jean de la Fontaine | Patience Quotes

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. - Jean de la Fontaine | Praise and Flattery Quotes

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats; neither fear nor shame can cure them. - Jean de la Fontaine | Vice Quotes

By the work one knows the workman. - Jean de la Fontaine | Work Quotes

We risk all in being too greedy. - Jean de la Fontaine | Greed Quotes

Better to suffer than to die. - Jean de la Fontaine | Forgiveness Quotes

We are never content with our lot. - Jean de la Fontaine | Forgiveness Quotes

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In this world we must help one another. - Jean de la Fontaine | Helping Other People Quotes

What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself. - Jean de la Fontaine | Friendship Quotes

Help yourself and heaven will help you. - Jean de la Fontaine | Prayer Quotes

He knows the universe and does not know himself. - Jean de la Fontaine | Self-Knowledge Quotes

Help yourself and heaven will help you. - Jean de la Fontaine | Self-Reliance Quotes

The worst time is always the present. - Jean de la Fontaine | The Past Quotes

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow. - Jean de la Fontaine | The Present Quotes

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. - Jean de la Fontaine | Difficult Days Quotes

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. - Jean de la Fontaine | Difficult Days Quotes

The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it. - Jean de la Fontaine | Positive Quotes

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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade. - Jean de la Fontaine | Right Quotes

In everything one must consider the end. - Jean de la Fontaine | Goals Quotes

From a distance it is something, and nearby it is nothing. - Jean de la Fontaine | Success and Happiness Quotes

To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear! - Jean de la Fontaine | Other Ways to Overcome Fear Quotes

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade. - Jean de la Fontaine | Work Quotes

I bend, but I do not break. - Jean de la Fontaine | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something. - Jean de la Fontaine | Adversity Quotes

Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. - Jean de la Fontaine | Peace Quotes

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. - Jean de la Fontaine | Begging Quotes

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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. - Jean de la Fontaine | Deception Quotes

A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "What a dust I raise." - Jean de la Fontaine | Fly Quotes

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. - Jean de la Fontaine | Journalism Quotes

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil. - Jean de la Fontaine | Newspapers Quotes

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never. - Jean de la Fontaine | Patience Quotes

All roads lead to Rome; but our antagonists think we should choose different paths. - Jean de la Fontaine | Rome Quotes

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Johann von Goethe Quotes and Quotations

Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect. - Johann von Goethe | Happiness Quotes

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. - Johann von Goethe | Happiness Quotes

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. - Johann von Goethe | Happiness Quotes

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness. - Johann von Goethe | Happiness Quotes

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own. - Johann von Goethe | Happiness Quotes

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers. - Johann von Goethe | Acceptance Quotes

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. - Johann von Goethe | Helping Other People Quotes

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own. - Johann von Goethe | Helping Other People Quotes

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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them. - Johann von Goethe | Friendship Quotes

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken, you study mineralogy best among miners, and so with everything else. - Johann von Goethe | Friendship Quotes

Faith is hidden household capital. - Johann von Goethe | Faith and Unity Quotes

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. - Johann von Goethe | Self-Acceptance Quotes

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. - Johann von Goethe | Self-Acceptance Quotes

I am what I am, so take me as I am! - Johann von Goethe | Self-Acceptance Quotes

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. - Johann von Goethe | Self-Acceptance Quotes

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. - Johann von Goethe | Self-Confidence Quotes

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without. - Johann von Goethe | Self-Reliance Quotes

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say. - Johann von Goethe | Simplicity Quotes

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Nothing is worth more than this day. - Johann von Goethe | One Day Quotes

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. - Johann von Goethe | One Day Quotes

It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle. - Johann von Goethe | One Day Quotes

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. - Johann von Goethe | One Day Quotes

Time itself is an element. - Johann von Goethe | One Day Quotes

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir. - Johann von Goethe | One Day Quotes

Every second is of infinite value. - Johann von Goethe | This Moment Quotes

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value. - Johann von Goethe | This Moment Quotes

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity-a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy. - Johann von Goethe | Mornings Quotes

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A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. - Johann von Goethe | Boring Days Quotes

Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. - Johann von Goethe | Positive Quotes

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world. - Johann von Goethe | Enthusiasm Quotes

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy. - Johann von Goethe | Hope Quotes

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. - Johann von Goethe | Change Quotes

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. - Johann von Goethe | Change Quotes

Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has the aptitude for it or not. - Johann von Goethe | Right Quotes

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension. - Johann von Goethe | Right Quotes

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. - Johann von Goethe | Realistic Expectations Quotes

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers. - Johann von Goethe | Realistic Expectations Quotes

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A useless life is an early death. - Johann von Goethe | Goals Quotes

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself. - Johann von Goethe | Goals Quotes

Let us live, while we are alive! - Johann von Goethe | Goals Quotes

Life's objective is life itself. - Johann von Goethe | Goals Quotes

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost. - Johann von Goethe | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot. - Johann von Goethe | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. - Johann von Goethe | Courage Quotes

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Johann von Goethe | Courage Quotes

Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases, she gives us greater courage. - Johann von Goethe | Courage Quotes

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To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities. - Johann von Goethe | Ignorance Quotes

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat. - Johann von Goethe | Getting Going Quotes

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. - Johann von Goethe | Getting Going Quotes

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all. - Johann von Goethe | Getting Going Quotes

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Johann von Goethe | Women's Movement Quotes

In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance. - Johann von Goethe | Success Quotes

We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired. - Johann von Goethe | Success Quotes

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it. - Johann von Goethe | Luck Quotes

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. - Johann von Goethe | Concentration Quotes

Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has the aptitude for it or not. - Johann von Goethe | Work Quotes

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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. - Johann von Goethe | Perfection Quotes

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time. - Johann von Goethe | Perseverance Quotes

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance. - Johann von Goethe | Perseverance Quotes

In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance. - Johann von Goethe | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do. - Johann von Goethe | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do! - Johann von Goethe | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

Austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time. - Johann von Goethe | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

Man errs as long as he struggles. - Johann von Goethe | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Johann von Goethe | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

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Man must strive, and in striving, he must err. - Johann von Goethe | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

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John Dryden Quotes and Quotations

Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden | Anger Quotes

Fight on, my merry men all, I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down for to bleed a while, Then I'll rise and fight with you again. - John Dryden | Courage and Bravery Quotes

All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. - John Dryden | Death and Dying Quotes

Every inch that is not fool is rogue. - John Dryden | Fools and Foolishness Quotes

Chaucer, I confess, is a rough diamond; and must be polished e'er he shines. - John Dryden | Literature Quotes

Repentance is but want of power to sin. - John Dryden | Repentance and Apology Quotes

There is a pleasure sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know! - John Dryden | Sanity and Insanity Quotes

I'll habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. - John Dryden | Vice Quotes

War is the trade of kings. - John Dryden | War Quotes

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. - John Dryden | Friendship in Bad Times Quotes

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be. - John Dryden | Happiness Quotes

They conquer who believe they can. - John Dryden | Self-Confidence Quotes

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than the dull prospect of a distant good. - John Dryden | One Day Quotes

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be. - John Dryden | The Future Quotes

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be. - John Dryden | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

Fortune befriends the bold. - John Dryden | Courage Quotes

None but the brave deserve the fair. - John Dryden | Courage Quotes

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence. - John Dryden | Luck Quotes

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I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again. - John Dryden | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden | Anger Quotes

None but the brave deserves the fair. - John Dryden | Bravery Quotes

His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen. - John Dryden | Man Quotes

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. - John Dryden | Nature Quotes

Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong. - John Dryden | Opinion Quotes

Damned Neuters, in their Middle way of Steering, Are neither Fish, nor Flesh, nor good Red Herring. - John Dryden | Politics Quotes

But far more numerous was the herd of stfch, Who think too little, and who talk too much. - John Dryden | Talk Quotes

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd today. - John Dryden | Today Quotes

For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen. - John Dryden | Trust Quotes

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War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble. - John Dryden | War Quotes

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John F. Kennedy Quotes and Quotations

When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. - John F. Kennedy | Action Quotes

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. - John F. Kennedy | Action Quotes

The White House was designed by Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait, but I appreciate his efforts. - John F. Kennedy | Architects and Architecture Quotes

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his experience. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist. . . faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an offensive state. - John F. Kennedy | Art and the Artist Quotes

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself. - John F. Kennedy | Courage and Bravery Quotes

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality. - John F. Kennedy | Courage and Bravery Quotes

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy | Goals and Ambition Quotes

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All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. - John F. Kennedy | Government and Rule Quotes

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were. - John F. Kennedy | Government and Rule Quotes

The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise, or due process of law, or the Australian ballot. - John F. Kennedy | Homo Sapiens Quotes

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own. - John F. Kennedy | Leaders and Leadership Quotes

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant. - John F. Kennedy | Liberty and Human Rights Quotes

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need - not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself. And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country . My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. - John F. Kennedy | Liberty and Human Rights Quotes

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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. - John F. Kennedy | Liberty and Human Rights Quotes

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.' - John F. Kennedy | Liberty and Human Rights Quotes

Too often we . . . enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. - John F. Kennedy | Opinion Quotes

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help. - John F. Kennedy | Politicians Quotes

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide." - John F. Kennedy | Politics Quotes

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. - John F. Kennedy | Politics Quotes

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - John F. Kennedy | Politics Quotes

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy | Poverty Quotes

Don't let it be forgot, That once there was a spot -For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot. - John F. Kennedy | The Presidency Quotes

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I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law. - John F. Kennedy | Quips and Comments Quotes

I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. - John F. Kennedy | Science and Technology Quotes

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. - John F. Kennedy | Society and Social Quotes

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy | Society and Social Quotes

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. - John F. Kennedy | War Quotes

Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people. - John F. Kennedy | Work Quotes

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. - John F. Kennedy | One Day Quotes

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. - John F. Kennedy | Hope Quotes

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope, and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable. - John F. Kennedy | Hope Quotes

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The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable. - John F. Kennedy | Change Quotes

Everything changes but change itself. - John F. Kennedy | Change Quotes

Change is the law of life. - John F. Kennedy | Change Quotes

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you. - John F. Kennedy | Goals Quotes

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. - John F. Kennedy | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality. - John F. Kennedy | Courage Quotes

There is, in addition to a courage with which men die, a courage by which men must live. - John F. Kennedy | Courage Quotes

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. - John F. Kennedy | Getting Going Quotes

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. - John F. Kennedy | Worthy Victories Quotes

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When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. - John F. Kennedy | Applause Quotes

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy | Family Quotes

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on. - John F. Kennedy | Peace Quotes

It takes two to make peace. - John F. Kennedy | Peace Quotes

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John Keats Quotes and Quotations

Beauty is truth - truth, beauty - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - John Keats | Beauty Quotes

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth. - John Keats | Beauty Quotes

A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it. - John Keats | Experience Quotes

Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home. - John Keats | Imagination Quotes

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy, but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain. - John Keats | Imagination Quotes

Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts. - John Keats | Life Quotes

A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it. - John Keats | Life Quotes

There is a budding morrow in midnight. - John Keats | Optimism and Pessimism Quotes

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Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, the gnomed mine -Unweave a rainbow. - John Keats | Philosophy Quotes

A drainless shower of light is poesy; 'tis the supreme of power; 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm. - John Keats | Poets and Poetry Quotes

I have met with women who I really think would like to be married to a poem, and to be given away by a novel. - John Keats | Women Quotes

Failure ... is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid. - John Keats | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid. - John Keats | Worthy Victories Quotes

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion Love is my religion And I could die for that. I could die for you. - John Keats | Faith Quotes

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness. - John Keats | Faith Quotes

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. - John Keats | Beauty Quotes

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. - John Keats | Beauty Quotes

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I wish to believe in immortality�I wish to live with you forever. - John Keats | Immortality Quotes

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. - John Keats | Joy Quotes

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is�Love, forgive us!�cinders, ashes, dust. - John Keats | Love Quotes

Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies! - John Keats | Sleep Quotes

To Sorrow I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me, and so kind. - John Keats | Sorrow Quotes

There is a budding tomorrow in midnight. - John Keats | Tomorrow Quotes

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John Milton Quotes and Quotations

To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night. From his watchtower in the skies, Til the dappled dawn doth rise. - John Milton | Animals Quotes

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. - John Milton | Books and Reading Quotes

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled. - John Milton | Censorship Quotes

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. - John Milton | Deception Quotes

Where no hope is left, is left no fear. - John Milton | Fear Quotes

God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best; His state Is kingly; thousands at His bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest - They also serve who only stand and wait. - John Milton | God Quotes

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible. - John Milton | Hypocrisy Quotes

None can love freedom heartily, but good men - the rest love not freedom, but licence. - John Milton | Liberty and Human Rights Quotes

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Reason is also choice. - John Milton | Reason Quotes

Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself. - John Milton | Scholars and Scholarship Quotes

They also serve who only stand and wait. - John Milton | Vice Quotes

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. - John Milton | Self-Control Quotes

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor. - John Milton | Self-Confidence Quotes

Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right and well-managed. - John Milton | Self-Confidence Quotes

Time is the subtle thief of youth. - John Milton | One Day Quotes

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. - John Milton | Positive Quotes

Where no hope is left, is left no fear. - John Milton | Hope Quotes

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do. - John Milton | Getting Going Quotes

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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. - John Milton | Events Quotes

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. - John Milton | Ambition Quotes

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. - John Milton | Books Quotes

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. - John Milton | Books Quotes

The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day. - John Milton | Childhood Quotes

Servant of God, well done! Well hast thou fought The better fight. - John Milton | Christian Quotes

Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe. - John Milton | Dancing Quotes

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose. - John Milton | Flowers Quotes

Since good, the more Communicated, more abundant grows. - John Milton | Goodness Quotes

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. - John Milton | Greece Quotes

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Where more is meant than meets the ear. - John Milton | Hearing Quotes

A heaven on earth. - John Milton | Heaven Quotes

All hell broke loose. - John Milton | Hell Quotes

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties. - John Milton | Liberty Quotes

So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. - John Milton | Love Quotes

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. - John Milton | Mind Quotes

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. - John Milton | Music Quotes

Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine! - John Milton | Nature Quotes

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else free will Would not admit. - John Milton | Passion Quotes

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Peace hath her victories, No less renowned than war. - John Milton | Peace Quotes

They also serve who only stand and wait. - John Milton | Service Quotes

Servant of God, well done. - John Milton | Service Quotes

So many laws argue so many sins. - John Milton | Sin Quotes

Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe. - John Milton | Victory Quotes

Most men admire Virtue, who follow not her lore. - John Milton | Virtue Quotes

The brazen throat of war. - John Milton | War Quotes

Wickedness is weakness. - John Milton | Wickedness Quotes

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. - John Milton | Women Quotes

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John Ruskin Quotes and Quotations

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. - John Ruskin | Architects and Architecture Quotes

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. - John Ruskin | Art and the Artist Quotes

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies for instance. - John Ruskin | Beauty Quotes

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it. - John Ruskin | Beauty Quotes

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. - John Ruskin | Books and Reading Quotes

There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. - John Ruskin | Buying and Selling Quotes

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. - John Ruskin | Education Quotes

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin | Love Quotes

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No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy. - John Ruskin | Love Quotes

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. - John Ruskin | Painters and Painting Quotes

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package. - John Ruskin | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor or erring habits of life. - John Ruskin | Cheerfulness Quotes

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet. - John Ruskin | Happiness Quotes

I know well that happiness is in little things. - John Ruskin | Happiness Quotes

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower. - John Ruskin | Happiness Quotes

There is no wealth but life. - John Ruskin | Forgiveness Quotes

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. - John Ruskin | Forgiveness Quotes

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When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet. - John Ruskin | Self-Reliance Quotes

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. - John Ruskin | Boring Days Quotes

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil. - John Ruskin | Positive Quotes

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. - John Ruskin | Positive Quotes

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil. - John Ruskin | Visualization Quotes

When men are rightfully occupied, then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden. - John Ruskin | Right Quotes

The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race. - John Ruskin | Right Quotes

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure. - John Ruskin | Motivation Quotes

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God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for everything He wants us to do. - John Ruskin | Courage Quotes

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. - John Ruskin | Work Quotes

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower. - John Ruskin | Work Quotes

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin | Work Quotes

God alone can finish. - John Ruskin | Action Quotes

God alone can finish. - John Ruskin | Action Quotes

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. - John Ruskin | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another; and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it. - John Ruskin | Applause Quotes

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. - John Ruskin | Nature Quotes

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God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for everything He wants us to do. - John Ruskin | Spirituality Quotes

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance. - John Ruskin | Beauty Quotes

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility. - John Ruskin | Humility Quotes

Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights. - John Ruskin | Shadow Quotes

Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its infinity. - John Ruskin | Sky Quotes

Absolute and entire ugliness is rare. - John Ruskin | Ugliness Quotes

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Jonathan Swift Quotes and Quotations

When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore. - Jonathan Swift | Adversity Quotes

Dignity, high station, or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age. - Jonathan Swift | Aging and Old Age Quotes

Zsa Zsa Gabor, when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest, said "She'll never admit it, but I believe it is Mama." When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. - Jonathan Swift | Aging and Old Age Quotes

No wise man ever wished to be younger. - Jonathan Swift | Aging and Old Age Quotes

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. - Jonathan Swift | Courage and Bravery Quotes

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift | Genius Quotes

What some invent, the rest enlarge. - Jonathan Swift | Gossip and Gossips Quotes

When the world has once begun to use us ill, and afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore. - Jonathan Swift | Life Quotes

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Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools - Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit. - Jonathan Swift | Praise and Flattery Quotes

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad. - Jonathan Swift | Travel and Travellers Quotes

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. - Jonathan Swift | Virtue Quotes

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. - Jonathan Swift | War Quotes

Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style. - Jonathan Swift | Writers and Writing Quotes

111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best. - Jonathan Swift | Friendship Quotes

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water. - Jonathan Swift | Prayer Quotes

May you live all the days of your life. - Jonathan Swift | One Day Quotes

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time. - Jonathan Swift | The Present Quotes

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift | Hope Quotes

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A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday. - Jonathan Swift | Creating Positive Change Quotes

There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy. - Jonathan Swift | Creating Positive Change Quotes

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly. - Jonathan Swift | Right Quotes

An excuse is a lie guarded. - Jonathan Swift | Courage Quotes

We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same. - Jonathan Swift | Companionship Quotes

She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. - Jonathan Swift | Appearance Quotes

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy. - Jonathan Swift | Atheism Quotes

There's none so blind as they that won't see. - Jonathan Swift | Blindness Quotes

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter. - Jonathan Swift | Bread Quotes

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The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little. - Jonathan Swift | Cause Quotes

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork. - Jonathan Swift | Clothes Quotes

Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives. - Jonathan Swift | Complaining Quotes

Every dog must have his day. - Jonathan Swift | Dogs Quotes

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives. - Jonathan Swift | Eating Quotes

Bread is the staff of life. - Jonathan Swift | Eating Quotes

I heard the little bird say so. - Jonathan Swift | Gossip Quotes

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. - Jonathan Swift | Kiss Quotes

May you live all the days of your life. - Jonathan Swift | Life Quotes

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company. - Jonathan Swift | Manners Quotes

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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. - Jonathan Swift | Oyster Quotes

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law. - Jonathan Swift | Possession Quotes

Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken. - Jonathan Swift | Promise Quotes

I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs. - Jonathan Swift | Rain Quotes

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. - Jonathan Swift | Reading Quotes

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. - Jonathan Swift | Riches Quotes

What some invent the rest enlarge. - Jonathan Swift | Rumor Quotes

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. - Jonathan Swift | Success Quotes

May you live all the days of your life. - Jonathan Swift | Toasts Quotes

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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. - Jonathan Swift | Want Quotes

There was all the world and his wife. - Jonathan Swift | World Quotes

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Joseph Addison Quotes and Quotations

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency. - Joseph Addison | Consistency Quotes

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain. - Joseph Addison | Goodness and Giving Quotes

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is. - Joseph Addison | Happiness Quotes

True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversations of a few select companions. - Joseph Addison | Happiness Quotes

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason, mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good Breeding. - Joseph Addison | Human Relations Quotes

Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts, Old age is slow in both. - Joseph Addison | Insults and Calumny Quotes

As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men. - Joseph Addison | Men Quotes

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below. - Joseph Addison | Music Quotes

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Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhappiness. - Joseph Addison | Unhappiness Quotes

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison | Happiness Quotes

True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. - Joseph Addison | Happiness Quotes

Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments. - Joseph Addison | Forgiveness Quotes

A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is. - Joseph Addison | Forgiveness Quotes

True happiness ... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. - Joseph Addison | Friendship Quotes

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness. - Joseph Addison | God Quotes

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness. - Joseph Addison | Faith and Unity Quotes

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage. - Joseph Addison | One Day Quotes

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner. - Joseph Addison | Courage Quotes

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend. - Joseph Addison | Success Quotes

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend. - Joseph Addison | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. - Joseph Addison | Worthy Victories Quotes

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. - Joseph Addison | Family Quotes

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief. - Joseph Addison | Family Quotes

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity. - Joseph Addison | Lighten up Quotes

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison | Lighten up Quotes

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. - Joseph Addison | Lighten up Quotes

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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. - Joseph Addison | Admiration Quotes

Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable. - Joseph Addison | Argument Quotes

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion. - Joseph Addison | Charity Quotes

Colors speak all languages. - Joseph Addison | Color Quotes

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice. - Joseph Addison | Justice Quotes

All of heaven we have below. - Joseph Addison | Music Quotes

And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. - Joseph Addison | Providence Quotes

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison | Reading Quotes

Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. - Joseph Addison | Storm Quotes

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's a very next step to being dull. - Joseph Addison | Stupidiity Quotes

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Kahlil Gibran Quotes and Quotations

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain. - Kahlil Gibran | Goals and Ambition Quotes

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master. - Kahlil Gibran | Laziness Quotes

Let there be spaces in your togetherness. - Kahlil Gibran | Marriage Quotes

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. - Kahlil Gibran | Teachers and Teaching Quotes

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. - Kahlil Gibran | Truth Quotes

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. - Kahlil Gibran | Work Quotes

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem. - Kahlil Gibran | Happiness Quotes

Yes, there is a Nirvanah: it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem. - Kahlil Gibran | Forgiveness Quotes

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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Kahlil Gibran | Helping Other People Quotes

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. - Kahlil Gibran | Friendship Quotes

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. - Kahlil Gibran | Faith and Unity Quotes

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. - Kahlil Gibran | Prayer Quotes

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. - Kahlil Gibran | Simplicity Quotes

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price. - Kahlil Gibran | One Day Quotes

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. - Kahlil Gibran | One Day Quotes

The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy. - Kahlil Gibran | The Past Quotes

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. - Kahlil Gibran | Mornings Quotes

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. - Kahlil Gibran | Positive Quotes

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Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. - Kahlil Gibran | Instincts Quotes

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. - Kahlil Gibran | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes

Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations? - Kahlil Gibran | Action Quotes

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. - Kahlil Gibran | Adversity Quotes

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. - Kahlil Gibran | Heartbreak Quotes

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. - Kahlil Gibran | Life Quotes

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love. - Kahlil Gibran | True Love Quotes

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes. - Kahlil Gibran | Applause Quotes

The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind. - Kahlil Gibran | Heart Quotes

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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. - Kahlil Gibran | Nature Quotes

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman. - Kahlil Gibran | Peace Quotes

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. - Kahlil Gibran | Spirituality Quotes

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. - Kahlil Gibran | Beauty Quotes

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Kahlil Gibran | Gift Quotes

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. - Kahlil Gibran | Injury Quotes

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. - Kahlil Gibran | Prayer Quotes

In much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. - Kahlil Gibran | Talk Quotes

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Leo Tolstoy Quotes and Quotations

Art is a human activity, consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of external signs, hands on to others feelings he has worked through, and other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them. - Leo Tolstoy | Art and the Artist Quotes

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy | Beauty Quotes

All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - Leo Tolstoy | Family and Ancestry Quotes

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy | Music Quotes

Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare. - Leo Tolstoy | Work Quotes

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence. - Leo Tolstoy | Happiness Quotes

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. - Leo Tolstoy | Happiness Quotes

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed. - Leo Tolstoy | Acceptance Quotes

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Faith is the force of life. - Leo Tolstoy | Faith and Unity Quotes

I am used to praying when I am alone, thank God. But when I come together with other people, when I need more than ever to pray, I still cannot get used to it. - Leo Tolstoy | Prayer Quotes

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity. - Leo Tolstoy | Simplicity Quotes

Boredom: the desire for desires. - Leo Tolstoy | Boring Days Quotes

The strongest of all warriors are these two-Time and Patience. - Leo Tolstoy | Difficult Days Quotes

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. - Leo Tolstoy | Positive Quotes

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy | Creating Positive Change Quotes

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. - Leo Tolstoy | Events Quotes

To love one's neighbors, to love one's enemies, to love everything�to love God in all His manifestations�human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love. - Leo Tolstoy | Faith Quotes

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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars. - Leo Tolstoy | Christianity Quotes

Faith is the force of life. - Leo Tolstoy | Faith Quotes

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave. - Leo Tolstoy | Immortality Quotes

Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible. - Leo Tolstoy | Women Quotes

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Leonardo da Vinci Quotes and Quotations

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. - Leonardo da Vinci | Fear Quotes

The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. - Leonardo da Vinci | Intellect Quotes

A good painter is to paint two main things, namely men and the working of man's mind. - Leonardo da Vinci | Painters and Painting Quotes

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci | Simplicity Quotes

A well-spent day brings happy sleep. - Leonardo da Vinci | Evenings Quotes

He turns not back who is bound to a star. - Leonardo da Vinci | Goals Quotes

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. - Leonardo da Vinci | Other Ways to Overcome Fear Quotes

He turns not back who is bound to a star. - Leonardo da Vinci | Commitment and Belief Quotes

God sells us all things at the price of labor. - Leonardo da Vinci | Work Quotes

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Oh Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort. - Leonardo da Vinci | Action Quotes

Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve. - Leonardo da Vinci | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

He turns not back who is bound to a star. - Leonardo da Vinci | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

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Lord Byron Quotes and Quotations

Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did. - Lord Byron | Christians and Christianity Quotes

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen. - Lord Byron | England and the U.K. Quotes

Let us have Wine and Women, Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after. - Lord Byron | Enjoyment and Pleasure Quotes

History is the devil's scripture. - Lord Byron | History and Historians Quotes

Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. - Lord Byron | Homo Sapiens Quotes

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library. - Lord Byron | Literature Quotes

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron | Passion and the Heart Quotes

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore. - Lord Byron | The Sea Quotes

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Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored. - Lord Byron | Society and Social Quotes

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers. - Lord Byron | Solitude Quotes

Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. - Lord Byron | Words and Language Quotes

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. - Lord Byron | Happiness Quotes

Friendship is love without his wings! - Lord Byron | Friendship Quotes

The "good old times"-all times, when old, are good. - Lord Byron | The Past Quotes

The past is the best prophet of the future. - Lord Byron | The Past Quotes

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. - Lord Byron | Positive Quotes

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron | Worthy Victories Quotes

Friendship is Love without his wings! - Lord Byron | Friends Quotes

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She walks in beauty, Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes. - Lord Byron | Passion Quotes

When Bishop Berkeley said, "there was no matter," And proved it�'twas no matter what he said. - Lord Byron | Argument Quotes

She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. - Lord Byron | Beauty Quotes

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. - Lord Byron | Bores Quotes

I am not now That which I have been. - Lord Byron | Change Quotes

A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing, And mischief-making monkey from his birth. - Lord Byron | Childhood Quotes

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below. - Lord Byron | Conquest Quotes

Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell! - Lord Byron | Conscience Quotes

On with the dance! Let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet. - Lord Byron | Dancing Quotes

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep. - Lord Byron | Death Quotes

I awoke one morning and found myself famous. - Lord Byron | Fame Quotes

Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well. - Lord Byron | Farewell Quotes

Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after. - Lord Byron | Festivities Quotes

Hereditary boundsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? - Lord Byron | Cowardice Quotes

Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great! - Lord Byron | Greece Quotes

Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart! - Lord Byron | Heart Quotes

Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell. - Lord Byron | Hell Quotes

Come, lay thy head upon my breast, And I will kiss thee into rest. - Lord Byron | Kiss Quotes

A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love. - Lord Byron | Kiss Quotes

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When we think we lead we most are led. - Lord Byron | Leadership Quotes

A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head�and there is London Town. - Lord Byron | London Quotes

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence. - Lord Byron | Love Quotes

And after all, what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade. - Lord Byron | Lying Quotes

Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. - Lord Byron | Man Quotes

He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat. - Lord Byron | Manners Quotes

Soprano, basso, even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto. - Lord Byron | Music Quotes

I love not man the less, but nature more. - Lord Byron | Nature Quotes

For the night Shows stars and women in a better light. - Lord Byron | Night Quotes

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It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard; It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word. - Lord Byron | Nightingales Quotes

Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well. - Lord Byron | Parting Quotes

Gone�glimmering through the dream of things that were. - Lord Byron | Past Quotes

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away. - Lord Byron | Ridicule Quotes

Smiles form the channels of a future tear. - Lord Byron | Smile Quotes

In solitude, when we are least alone. - Lord Byron | Solitude Quotes

The busy have no time for tears. - Lord Byron | Sorrow Quotes

His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole." - Lord Byron | Speech Quotes

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour. - Lord Byron | Tale Quotes

The power of Thought,�the magic of the Mind! - Lord Byron | Thought Quotes

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Here's a sigh to those who love me And a smile to those who hate; And whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate. - Lord Byron | Toasts Quotes

'Tis strange�but true; for truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction. - Lord Byron | Trust Quotes

Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home. - Lord Byron | Welcome Quotes

Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life? - Lord Byron | Wife Quotes

Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain,� Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. - Lord Byron | Wine and Spirits Quotes

In her first passion woman loves her lover; In all the others, all she loves is love. - Lord Byron | Women Quotes

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour! - Lord Byron | Wonder Quotes

There is a tide in the affairs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads�God knows where. - Lord Byron | Wooing Quotes

Tis enough� Who listens once will listen twice; Her heart be sure is not of ice, And one refusal no rebuff. - Lord Byron | Wooing Quotes

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I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee. - Lord Byron | World Quotes

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear That which disfigures it. - Lord Byron | Wound Quotes

Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy! - Lord Byron | Youth Quotes

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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes and Quotations

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems. - Mahatma Gandhi | Ability and Achievement Quotes

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain. - Mahatma Gandhi | Action Quotes

To a man with an empty stomach, food is god. - Mahatma Gandhi | Food Quotes

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having. - Mahatma Gandhi | Liberty and Human Rights Quotes

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving. - Mahatma Gandhi | Nature Quotes

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour, his religion, his soul, and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration. - Mahatma Gandhi | Revolution and Reform Quotes

I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist, and Confucian. - Mahatma Gandhi | Religion Quotes

There are limits to self-indulgence, none to self-restraint. - Mahatma Gandhi | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. - Mahatma Gandhi | Violence Quotes

Morality is contraband in war. - Mahatma Gandhi | War Quotes

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. - Mahatma Gandhi | Happiness Quotes

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. - Mahatma Gandhi | Faith and Unity Quotes

Faith is the function of the heart. - Mahatma Gandhi | Faith and Unity Quotes

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. - Mahatma Gandhi | Prayer Quotes

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. - Mahatma Gandhi | Prayer Quotes

If I had no sense of humor, I should long ago have committed suicide. - Mahatma Gandhi | Events Quotes

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love. - Mahatma Gandhi | Faith Quotes

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Where there is love there is life. - Mahatma Gandhi | Life Quotes

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Marcus Aurelius Quotes and Quotations

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure. - Marcus Aurelius | Adversity Quotes

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight. - Marcus Aurelius | Death and Dying Quotes

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. - Marcus Aurelius | Fate and Destiny Quotes

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. - Marcus Aurelius | The Future Quotes

If thou workest at that which is before thee, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract thee, but keeping thy divine part pure, as if thou shouldst be bound to give it back immediately; if thou holdest to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this. - Marcus Aurelius | Happiness Quotes

I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else, he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others. - Marcus Aurelius | Homo Sapiens Quotes

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn. - Marcus Aurelius | Life Quotes

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack. - Marcus Aurelius | Life Quotes

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The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours. - Marcus Aurelius | Time Quotes

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. - Marcus Aurelius | Time Quotes

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. - Marcus Aurelius | Peace of Mind Quotes

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. - Marcus Aurelius | Peace of Mind Quotes

If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this. - Marcus Aurelius | Happiness Quotes

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. - Marcus Aurelius | Happiness Quotes

To live happily is an inward power of the soul. - Marcus Aurelius | Happiness Quotes

A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man. - Marcus Aurelius | Happiness Quotes

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius | Happiness Quotes

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Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life. - Marcus Aurelius | Acceptance Quotes

Here is a rule to remember when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not, "This is a misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune." - Marcus Aurelius | Acceptance Quotes

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. - Marcus Aurelius | Acceptance Quotes

Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate. - Marcus Aurelius | Acceptance Quotes

Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. - Marcus Aurelius | Forgiveness Quotes

Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him. - Marcus Aurelius | Forgiveness Quotes

To them that ask, where have you seen the Gods, or how do you know for certain there are Gods, that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it. - Marcus Aurelius | God Quotes

What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies ... the real man. - Marcus Aurelius | Self-Reliance Quotes

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Look well into thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there. - Marcus Aurelius | Self-Reliance Quotes

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to dust. - Marcus Aurelius | Self-Reliance Quotes

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. - Marcus Aurelius | Self-Reliance Quotes

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character. - Marcus Aurelius | One Day Quotes

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. - Marcus Aurelius | One Day Quotes

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits. - Marcus Aurelius | The Present Quotes

Everyman's life lies within the present, for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. - Marcus Aurelius | The Present Quotes

The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment. - Marcus Aurelius | This Moment Quotes

Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning. - Marcus Aurelius | Mornings Quotes

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Time is like a river of fleeting events, and its current is strong; as soon as something comes into sight, it is swept past us, and something else takes its place, and that too will be swept away. - Marcus Aurelius | Difficult Days Quotes

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts ... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. - Marcus Aurelius | Positive Quotes

A man's life is what his thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius | Positive Quotes

Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change? - Marcus Aurelius | Change Quotes

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe. - Marcus Aurelius | Change Quotes

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal. - Marcus Aurelius | Right Quotes

Let them know a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. - Marcus Aurelius | Right Quotes

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life. - Marcus Aurelius | Realistic Expectations Quotes

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. - Marcus Aurelius | Goals Quotes

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Without a purpose, nothing should be done. - Marcus Aurelius | Goals Quotes

A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. - Marcus Aurelius | Goals Quotes

A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man. - Marcus Aurelius | Goals Quotes

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure. - Marcus Aurelius | Goals Quotes

It is not death that a man should fear, he should fear never beginning to live. - Marcus Aurelius | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. - Marcus Aurelius | Courage Quotes

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure. - Marcus Aurelius | Courage Quotes

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow. - Marcus Aurelius | Concentration Quotes

If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this. - Marcus Aurelius | Action Quotes

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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. - Marcus Aurelius | Events Quotes

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. - Marcus Aurelius | Events Quotes

Accept the things To which fate binds you and Love the people with whom fate Brings you together But do so with all your heart. - Marcus Aurelius | Introspection Quotes

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Margaret Thatcher Quotes and Quotations

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded. - Margaret Thatcher | Character and Personality Quotes

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. - Margaret Thatcher | Politics Quotes

The lady's not for turning. - Margaret Thatcher | Politics Quotes

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. - Margaret Thatcher | Sex Quotes

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48. - Margaret Thatcher | Wit Quotes

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it. - Margaret Thatcher | Women Quotes

The battle for women's rights has been largely won. - Margaret Thatcher | Women Quotes

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. - Margaret Thatcher | Self-Control Quotes

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. - Margaret Thatcher | Self-Confidence Quotes

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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. - Margaret Thatcher | One Day Quotes

I will not change just to court popularity. - Margaret Thatcher | Creating Positive Change Quotes

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. - Margaret Thatcher | Goals Quotes

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top. - Margaret Thatcher | Goals Quotes

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose. - Margaret Thatcher | Success Quotes

Pennies do not come from heaven- they have to be earned here on earth. - Margaret Thatcher | Luck Quotes

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides. - Margaret Thatcher | Commitment Quotes

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too." - Margaret Thatcher | Time Quotes

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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. - Margaret Thatcher | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. - Margaret Thatcher | Perseverance Quotes

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. - Margaret Thatcher | Politics Quotes

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Mark Twain Quotes and Quotations

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid. - Mark Twain | Ability and Achievement Quotes

Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket. - Mark Twain | Advice Quotes

Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. - Mark Twain | Advice Quotes

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. - Mark Twain | Animals Quotes

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw. - Mark Twain | The Bible Quotes

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain | Books and Reading Quotes

Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. - Mark Twain | Character and Personality Quotes

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots. - Mark Twain | Character and Personality Quotes

Ethical man - a Christian holding four aces. - Mark Twain | Christians and Christianity Quotes

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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice. - Mark Twain | Consistency Quotes

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. - Mark Twain | Courage and Bravery Quotes

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics. - Mark Twain | Critics and Criticism Quotes

Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. - Mark Twain | Habit and Tradition Quotes

Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice, it is merely custom. - Mark Twain | Habit and Tradition Quotes

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. - Mark Twain | Death and Dying Quotes

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. - Mark Twain | Fear Quotes

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. - Mark Twain | Fools and Foolishness Quotes

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town? - Mark Twain | Fools and Foolishness Quotes

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We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents. - Mark Twain | Hell and the Devil Quotes

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. - Mark Twain | Honesty Quotes

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. - Mark Twain | Honour Quotes

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots. - Mark Twain | Human Relations Quotes

Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. - Mark Twain | Imitation Quotes

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. - Mark Twain | Insults and Calumny Quotes

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. - Mark Twain | Life Quotes

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written. - Mark Twain | Literature Quotes

It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so. - Mark Twain | Memory Quotes

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In his private heart no man much respects himself. - Mark Twain | Men Quotes

Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a gentleman. - Mark Twain | Money Quotes

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities. - Mark Twain | Morality and Ethics Quotes

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain | Music Quotes

What a good thing Adam had - when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. - Mark Twain | Originality Quotes

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. - Mark Twain | Patriotism and Nationalism Quotes

The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo. - Mark Twain | Patriotism and Nationalism Quotes

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. - Mark Twain | Politeness and Manners Quotes

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. - Mark Twain | Politics Quotes

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I can live for two months on a good compliment. - Mark Twain | Praise and Flattery Quotes

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par. - Mark Twain | Prayer Quotes

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. - Mark Twain | Prayer Quotes

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility. - Mark Twain | Prejudice and Bigotry Quotes

Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please. - Mark Twain | Proof and Certainty Quotes

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. - Mark Twain | Sanity and Insanity Quotes

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. - Mark Twain | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it. - Mark Twain | Silence Quotes

Golf is a good walk spoiled. - Mark Twain | Sport Quotes

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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. - Mark Twain | Temptation Quotes

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. - Mark Twain | Travel and Travellers Quotes

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. - Mark Twain | Travel and Travellers Quotes

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful, careless voyage. - Mark Twain | Travel and Travellers Quotes

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. - Mark Twain | Truth Quotes

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. - Mark Twain | Wealth Quotes

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kindhearted, fat, benevolent people do. - Mark Twain | Wealth Quotes

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stovelid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. - Mark Twain | Wisdom Quotes

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation. - Mark Twain | Wit Quotes

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. - Mark Twain | Words and Language Quotes

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. - Mark Twain | Words and Language Quotes

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience. - Mark Twain | Writers and Writing Quotes

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain | Youth Quotes

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. - Mark Twain | Youth Quotes

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. - Mark Twain | Friendship in Bad Times Quotes

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain | Happiness Quotes

To be busy is man's only happiness. - Mark Twain | Happiness Quotes

To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. - Mark Twain | Happiness Quotes

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Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it. - Mark Twain | Happiness Quotes

The fragrance of the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. - Mark Twain | Forgiveness Quotes

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich. - Mark Twain | Forgiveness Quotes

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain | Helping Other People Quotes

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up. - Mark Twain | Helping Other People Quotes

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain | Friendship Quotes

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right. - Mark Twain | Friendship Quotes

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out. - Mark Twain | Prayer Quotes

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. - Mark Twain | Self-Acceptance Quotes

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. - Mark Twain | Self-Acceptance Quotes

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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. - Mark Twain | Self-Confidence Quotes

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. - Mark Twain | Self-Reliance Quotes

Make it a point to 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. - Mark Twain | One Day Quotes

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise. - Mark Twain | Evenings Quotes

Lord save us all from ... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. - Mark Twain | Hope Quotes

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain | Hope Quotes

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain | Role Models Quotes

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. - Mark Twain | Creating Positive Change Quotes

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility. - Mark Twain | Creating Positive Change Quotes

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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency, and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency, and a vice. - Mark Twain | Creating Positive Change Quotes

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. - Mark Twain | Decisions Quotes

Necessity is the mother of taking chances. - Mark Twain | Motivation Quotes

From his cradle to the grave, a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself. - Mark Twain | Goals Quotes

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. - Mark Twain | Worry Quotes

Necessity is the mother of taking chances. - Mark Twain | Risks Quotes

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. - Mark Twain | Courage Quotes

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. - Mark Twain | Getting Going Quotes

Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident. - Mark Twain | Luck Quotes

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. - Mark Twain | Opportunity Quotes

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. - Mark Twain | Work Quotes

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. - Mark Twain | Work Quotes

Necessity is the mother of "taking chances." - Mark Twain | Adversity Quotes

Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast. - Mark Twain | Beginnings Quotes

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. - Mark Twain | Companionship Quotes

Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. - Mark Twain | Companionship Quotes

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain | Family Quotes

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. - Mark Twain | Lighten up Quotes

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. - Mark Twain | Lighten up Quotes

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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain | Openers and Introductions Quotes

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. - Mark Twain | Openers and Introductions Quotes

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. - Mark Twain | Birthdays and Age Quotes

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. - Mark Twain | Business Quotes

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain | Character Quotes

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him. - Mark Twain | Character Quotes

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death. - Mark Twain | Cities and Travel Quotes

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he said: "Yes: the little one does." - Mark Twain | Cities and Travel Quotes

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. - Mark Twain | Cities and Travel Quotes

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You can tell German wine from vinegar ... by the label. - Mark Twain | Eat, Drink, and Be Merry Quotes

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. - Mark Twain | Eat, Drink, and Be Merry Quotes

There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain | Friendship Quotes

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain | Life and Death Quotes

Man�a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. - Mark Twain | Men and Women Quotes

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him. - Mark Twain | Mothers and Fathers Quotes

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain | Mothers and Fathers Quotes

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spenser is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I'm not feeling so well myself. - Mark Twain | Professions and Work Quotes

Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. - Mark Twain | Religion Quotes

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain | Religion Quotes

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion. - Mark Twain | Vices and Foibles Quotes

Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him. - Mark Twain | Thank-yous and Closures Quotes

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes and Quotations

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr. | Adversity Quotes

Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. - Martin Luther King, Jr. | Creation and Creativity Quotes

Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. | Hatred Quotes

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. - Martin Luther King, Jr. | Heroes and Heroism Quotes

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law. - Martin Luther King, Jr. | Minorities Quotes

Riots are the voices of the unheard. - Martin Luther King, Jr. | Revolution and Reform Quotes

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. - Martin Luther King, Jr. | Science and Technology Quotes

Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and enobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals. - Martin Luther King, Jr. | Violence Quotes

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We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King, Jr. | Acceptance Quotes

The time is always right to do what is right. - Martin Luther King, Jr. | The Present Quotes

If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. - Martin Luther King, Jr. | Right Quotes

We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. | Courage Quotes

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. - Martin Luther King, Jr. | Commitment Quotes

If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. - Martin Luther King, Jr. | Work Quotes

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr. | Worthy Victories Quotes

Without love, benevolence becomes egotism. - Martin Luther King, Jr. | Introspection Quotes

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. - Martin Luther King, Jr. | Faith Quotes

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Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both. - Martin Luther King, Jr. | Faith Quotes

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Matthew Arnold Quotes and Quotations

The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives. - Matthew Arnold | England and the U.K. Quotes

We forget because we must And not because we will. - Matthew Arnold | Memory Quotes

Nature, with equal mind, sees all her sons at play, sees man control the wind, the wind sweep man away. - Matthew Arnold | Nature Quotes

Journalism is literature in a hurry. - Matthew Arnold | Newspapers and Journalism Quotes

The same heart beats in every human breast. - Matthew Arnold | Passion and the Heart Quotes

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. - Matthew Arnold | Personal Appearance Quotes

Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery. - Matthew Arnold | Happiness Quotes

Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done? - Matthew Arnold | Forgiveness Quotes

Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. - Matthew Arnold | Self-Knowledge Quotes

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Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery! - Matthew Arnold | Self-Acceptance Quotes

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. - Matthew Arnold | The Past Quotes

Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery! - Matthew Arnold | Right Quotes

Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today. - Matthew Arnold | Women's Movement Quotes

They who await no gifts from chance have conquered fate. - Matthew Arnold | Luck Quotes

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. - Matthew Arnold | Applause Quotes

The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. - Matthew Arnold | Swans Quotes

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Miguel de Cervantes Quotes and Quotations

There are only two families in the world, as a Grandmother of mine used to say, the haves and the havenots. - Miguel de Cervantes | Society and Social Quotes

Let us forget and forgive injuries. - Miguel de Cervantes | Forgiveness Quotes

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him. - Miguel de Cervantes | Friendship Quotes

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art. - Miguel de Cervantes | Friendship Quotes

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works. - Miguel de Cervantes | Self-Reliance Quotes

Ne'er look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last. - Miguel de Cervantes | The Past Quotes

They who lose today may win tomorrow. - Miguel de Cervantes | The Future Quotes

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases. - Miguel de Cervantes | Motivation Quotes

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things. - Miguel de Cervantes | Motivation Quotes

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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are. - Miguel de Cervantes | Fear Quotes

Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies. - Miguel de Cervantes | Other Ways to Overcome Fear Quotes

Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. - Miguel de Cervantes | Risks Quotes

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all. - Miguel de Cervantes | Courage Quotes

Faint heart never won fair lady. - Miguel de Cervantes | Courage Quotes

The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts. - Miguel de Cervantes | Courage Quotes

Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. - Miguel de Cervantes | Courage Quotes

Delay always breeds danger, and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. - Miguel de Cervantes | Getting Going Quotes

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works. - Miguel de Cervantes | Success Quotes

A stout heart breaks bad luck. - Miguel de Cervantes | Boldness and Courage Quotes

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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. - Miguel de Cervantes | Acting Quotes

All that glisters is not gold. - Miguel de Cervantes | Appearance Quotes

The pen is the tongue of the mind. - Miguel de Cervantes | Authorship Quotes

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. - Miguel de Cervantes | Birds Quotes

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket. - Miguel de Cervantes | Caution Quotes

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. - Miguel de Cervantes | Caution Quotes

Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. - Miguel de Cervantes | Character Quotes

He who sings frightens away his ills. - Miguel de Cervantes | Cheerfulness Quotes

All will come out in the washing. - Miguel de Cervantes | Cleanliness Quotes

Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art. - Miguel de Cervantes | Companionship Quotes

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Said the pot to die kettle, "Get away, blackface." - Miguel de Cervantes | Criticism Quotes

Here is the devil-and-all to pay. - Miguel de Cervantes | Devil Quotes

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. - Miguel de Cervantes | Eating Quotes

He had a face like a benediction. - Miguel de Cervantes | Face Quotes

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate. - Miguel de Cervantes | Forgetfulness Quotes

Soul of fibre and heart of oak. - Miguel de Cervantes | Heart Quotes

Honesty is the best policy. - Miguel de Cervantes | Honesty Quotes

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all. - Miguel de Cervantes | Independence Quotes

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity. - Miguel de Cervantes | Judge Quotes

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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Miguel de Cervantes | Labor Quotes

There's no love lost between us. - Miguel de Cervantes | Love Quotes

As ill-luck would have it. - Miguel de Cervantes | Luck Quotes

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice. - Miguel de Cervantes | Mercy Quotes

Spick and span new. - Miguel de Cervantes | Newness Quotes

Dine on little, and sup on less. - Miguel de Cervantes | Prudence Quotes

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me. - Miguel de Cervantes | Shoemaking Quotes

Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles. - Miguel de Cervantes | Sleep Quotes

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread. - Miguel de Cervantes | Sorrow Quotes

One swallow alone does not make the summer. - Miguel de Cervantes | Summer Quotes

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Make hay while the sun shines. - Miguel de Cervantes | Sun Quotes

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering. - Miguel de Cervantes | Thought Quotes

The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness. - Miguel de Cervantes | Valor Quotes

God bears with the wicked, but not forever. - Miguel de Cervantes | Wickedness Quotes

Mum is the word. - Miguel de Cervantes | Word Quotes

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Mother Teresa Quotes and Quotations

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. - Mother Teresa | Loneliness Quotes

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. - Mother Teresa | Medicine and Sickness Quotes

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa | Helping Other People Quotes

One filled with joy preaches without preaching. - Mother Teresa | Helping Other People Quotes

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa | Friendship Quotes

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself. - Mother Teresa | Prayer Quotes

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife. - Mother Teresa | Self-Control Quotes

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. - Mother Teresa | Simplicity Quotes

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa | One Day Quotes

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I just take one day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus. - Mother Teresa | The Present Quotes

We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope. - Mother Teresa | Hope Quotes

One filled with joy preaches without preaching. - Mother Teresa | Role Models Quotes

God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful. - Mother Teresa | Action Quotes

I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it. - Mother Teresa | Action Quotes

We can do no great things-only small things with great love. - Mother Teresa | Time Quotes

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it. - Mother Teresa | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other�it doesn't matter who it is and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. - Mother Teresa | Family Quotes

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa | Faith Quotes

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. - Mother Teresa | Faith Quotes

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If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa | Lighten up Quotes

It is not what we do, it is how much love we put in the doing. - Mother Teresa | Lighten up Quotes

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa | Peace Quotes

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Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes and Quotations

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Action Quotes

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Courage and Bravery Quotes

As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Courage and Bravery Quotes

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Fame and Celebrities Quotes

All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Fame and Celebrities Quotes

Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its slave. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Fashion Quotes

The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Government and Rule Quotes

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Leaders and Leadership Quotes

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Leaders and Leadership Quotes

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A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Leaders and Leadership Quotes

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day? - Napoleon Bonaparte | Maturity Quotes

The heart of a statesman should be in his head. - Napoleon Bonaparte | The Mind Quotes

10 persons who speak make more noise than 10,000 who are silent. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Minorities Quotes

My downfall raises me to infinite heights. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Ruin Quotes

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots. - Napoleon Bonaparte | War Quotes

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Wealth Quotes

If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Will and Determination Quotes

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Faith and Unity Quotes

To do all that one is able to do is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do is to be a god. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Self-Acceptance Quotes

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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Self-Control Quotes

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Self-Reliance Quotes

You may ask me for anything you like except time. - Napoleon Bonaparte | One Day Quotes

Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men. - Napoleon Bonaparte | One Day Quotes

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Positive Quotes

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Positive Quotes

A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Hope Quotes

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Creating Positive Change Quotes

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Decisions Quotes

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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Motivation Quotes

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Motivation Quotes

There are only two forces that unite men-fear and interest. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Motivation Quotes

To do all that one is able to do is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do is to be a god. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Realistic Expectations Quotes

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Risks Quotes

With audacity one can undertake anything. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Courage Quotes

Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Courage Quotes

Victory belongs to the most persevering. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Success Quotes

If you start to take Vienna, take Vienna. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Success Quotes

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Ability is of little account without opportunity. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Opportunities Quotes

If you start to take Vienna, take Vienna. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Commitment Quotes

If you start to take Vienna, take Vienna. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Commitment and Belief Quotes

Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Work Quotes

Victory belongs to the most persevering. - Napoleon Bonaparte | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten, and goes on fighting. - Napoleon Bonaparte | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes. - Napoleon Bonaparte | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

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Ogden Nash Quotes and Quotations

Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. - Ogden Nash | Aging and Old Age Quotes

Senescence begins And middle age ends, The day your descendants Outnumber your friends. - Ogden Nash | Aging and Old Age Quotes

If called by a panther Don't anther. - Ogden Nash | Animals Quotes

Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech. - Ogden Nash | Gossip and Gossips Quotes

Here's a good rule of thumb Too clever, is dumb. - Ogden Nash | Intellect Quotes

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. - Ogden Nash | Life Quotes

Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited. - Ogden Nash | Money Quotes

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin with a grin. - Ogden Nash | Morality and Ethics Quotes

Poets aren't very useful, because they aren't consumeful or very produceful. - Ogden Nash | Poets and Poetry Quotes

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Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long. - Ogden Nash | Progress Quotes

One bliss for which there is no match is when you itch to up and scratch. - Ogden Nash | Quips and Comments Quotes

Parsely is gharsley. - Ogden Nash | Quips and Comments Quotes

In the world of mules there are no rules. - Ogden Nash | Quips and Comments Quotes

There are people who are very resourceful At being remorseful, And who apparently feel that the best way to make friends Is to do something terrible and then make amends. - Ogden Nash | Repentance and Apology Quotes

Purity is obscurity. - Ogden Nash | Virtue Quotes

The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure. - Ogden Nash | Other Side Quotes

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor. - Ogden Nash | Friendship Quotes

Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it. - Ogden Nash | The Past Quotes

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Middle age is when you have met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else and usually is. - Ogden Nash | Birthdays and Age Quotes

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. - Ogden Nash | Professions and Work Quotes

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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes and Quotations

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse. - Oliver Goldsmith | Conscience Quotes

Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long. - Oliver Goldsmith | Life Quotes

Philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an errant jade on a journey. - Oliver Goldsmith | Philosophy Quotes

I'll fares the land, to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. - Oliver Goldsmith | Wealth Quotes

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. - Oliver Goldsmith | Women Quotes

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales. - Oliver Goldsmith | Words and Language Quotes

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. - Oliver Goldsmith | Forgiveness Quotes

At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. - Oliver Goldsmith | Prayer Quotes

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He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping. - Oliver Goldsmith | Self-Acceptance Quotes

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, emits a lighter ray. - Oliver Goldsmith | Hope Quotes

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. - Oliver Goldsmith | Role Models Quotes

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition. - Oliver Goldsmith | Realistic Expectations Quotes

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. - Oliver Goldsmith | Luck Quotes

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. - Oliver Goldsmith | Work Quotes

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. - Oliver Goldsmith | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise to fight again. - Oliver Goldsmith | Courtesy Quotes

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs. - Oliver Goldsmith | Curiosity Quotes

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber. - Oliver Goldsmith | Gentleman Quotes

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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after. - Oliver Goldsmith | Improvement Quotes

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. - Oliver Goldsmith | Law Quotes

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. - Oliver Goldsmith | Law Quotes

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all it knew. - Oliver Goldsmith | Learning Quotes

Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long. - Oliver Goldsmith | Man Quotes

The very pink of perfection. - Oliver Goldsmith | Perfection Quotes

The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died. - Oliver Goldsmith | Poison Quotes

At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. - Oliver Goldsmith | Prayer Quotes

But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. - Oliver Goldsmith | Preaching Quotes

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Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs. - Oliver Goldsmith | Question Quotes

He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. - Oliver Goldsmith | Sympathy Quotes

Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long. - Oliver Goldsmith | Want Quotes

I'll fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade� A breath can make them, as a breath has made� But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supplied. - Oliver Goldsmith | Wealth Quotes

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes and Quotations

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Ability and Achievement Quotes

Every calling is great when greatly pursued. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Ability and Achievement Quotes

I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might,' infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbour as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbour; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Ability and Achievement Quotes

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Advice Quotes

An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Aging and Old Age Quotes

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Aging and Old Age Quotes

A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Aging and Old Age Quotes

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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Aging and Old Age Quotes

Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Aging and Old Age Quotes

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Aging and Old Age Quotes

If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement, or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Aging and Old Age Quotes

Thou, oh my country, hast thy foolish ways, Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | America and Americans Quotes

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Anxiety and Worry Quotes

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | The City and the Country Quotes

People who honestly mean to be true, really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Consistency Quotes

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Conviction and Belief Quotes

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Nature, when she invented, manufactured and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Critics and Criticism Quotes

Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Death and Dying Quotes

After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Death and Dying Quotes

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Drink, Drinking and Drinkers Quotes

A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Enjoyment and Pleasure Quotes

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Environment Quotes

The life of the law has not been logic, it has been experience. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Experience Quotes

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Fame and Celebrities Quotes

Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Fate and Destiny Quotes

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Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Heredity Quotes

A man is a kind of inverted thermometer, the bulb uppermost, and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Homo Sapiens Quotes

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Ideas Quotes

A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Ignorance Quotes

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Justice Quotes

Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Law and Lawyers Quotes

Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Law and Lawyers Quotes

The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Law and Lawyers Quotes

The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Leaders and Leadership Quotes

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The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Liberty and Human Rights Quotes

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Life Quotes

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Life Quotes

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Life Quotes

Husband and wife come to look alike at last. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Marriage Quotes

A general flavour of mild decay, but nothing local, as one may say. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Medicine and Sickness Quotes

So long as the body is affected through the mind, no audacious device, even of the most manifestly dishonest character, can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or even a partial faith. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Medicine and Sickness Quotes

A man must get a thing before he can forget it. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Memory Quotes

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I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Men and Women Quotes

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Originality Quotes

When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. The author may arrange the gems effectively but their shape and lustre have been given by the attrition of ages. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Poets and Poetry Quotes

When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Poets and Poetry Quotes

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Prejudice and Bigotry Quotes

A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all, but a man of more than average moral instincts, who if he knows anything, knows how little he knows. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Religion Quotes

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will, and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Religion Quotes

Apology is only egotism wrong side out. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Repentance and Apology Quotes

Apology - a desperate habit, and one that is rarely cured. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Repentance and Apology Quotes

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A sick man that gets talking about himself, a woman that gets talking about her baby, and an author that begins reading out of his own book, never know when to stop. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; Carve every word before you let it fall. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Speakers and Speeches Quotes

Talking is like playing on the harp, there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Taste Quotes

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Thinking and Thought Quotes

Don't be consistent, but be simply true. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Truth Quotes

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at the truth. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Truth Quotes

Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Women Quotes

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Words and Language Quotes

When I feel inclined to read poetry, I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Words and Language Quotes

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When the style is fully formed, if it has a sweet undersong, we call it beautiful, and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Writers and Writing Quotes

Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Happiness Quotes

The man who thinks his wife, his baby, his house, his horse, his dog, and himself severely unequalled, is almost sure to be a good-humored person. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Forgiveness Quotes

Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content! - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Forgiveness Quotes

Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Friendship Quotes

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Friendship Quotes

Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell him. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Friendship Quotes

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Friendship Quotes

One unquestioned text we read, All doubt beyond, all fear above; Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it: God is Love. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | God Quotes

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Faith, as an intellectual state, is self-reliance. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Faith and Unity Quotes

Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Faith and Unity Quotes

The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Faith and Unity Quotes

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Self-Acceptance Quotes

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Self-Acceptance Quotes

A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | One Day Quotes

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right-it holds my golden time! - Oliver Wendell Holmes | One Day Quotes

Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | One Day Quotes

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | One Day Quotes

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | The Past Quotes

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Imitation is a necessity of human nature. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Role Models Quotes

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent." - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Creating Positive Change Quotes

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Decisions Quotes

Systems die; instincts remain. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Instincts Quotes

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Realistic Expectations Quotes

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Goals Quotes

The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes

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When in doubt, do it. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes

rouble creates a capacity to handle it. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Courage Quotes

The reward of the general is not a bigger tent, but command. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Success Quotes

If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Concentration Quotes

Life is a great bundle of little things. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Time Quotes

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that; one stitch at a time taken patiently, and the pattern will come out all right, like embroidery. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Time Quotes

For me, at least, there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until, by and by, out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Perseverance Quotes

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Life Quotes

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Lighten up Quotes

The AmenT of Nature is always a flower. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Nature Quotes

I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Professions and Work Quotes

The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done." - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Age Quotes

Apology is only egotism wrong side out. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Apology Quotes

What a blessed thing it is that nature, when she invented, manufactured and patented her audiors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left! - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Criticism Quotes

Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Hope Quotes

Logic is logic. That's all I say. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Logic Quotes

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Medicine Quotes

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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Study Quotes

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Talent Quotes

Man has his will,�but woman has her way. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | Women Quotes

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Omar Khayyam Quotes and Quotations

Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went. - Omar Khayyam | Argument Quotes

Ah, take the cash, and let the credit go. - Omar Khayyam | Credit Quotes

Strange�is it not?�that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too. - Omar Khayyam | Death Quotes

Ah love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits�and then Re-mold it nearer to the heart's desire! - Omar Khayyam | Desire Quotes

Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where. - Omar Khayyam | Drinking Quotes

The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. - Omar Khayyam | Fate Quotes

I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head. - Omar Khayyam | Flowers Quotes

One thing is certain and the rest is lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies. - Omar Khayyam | Flowers Quotes

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There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might not see. - Omar Khayyam | Future Quotes

Dust into dust, and under dust, to lie, Sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and�sans end. - Omar Khayyam | Grave Quotes

Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire. - Omar Khayyam | Heaven Quotes

Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits�and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire? - Omar Khayyam | Life Quotes

And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright. - Omar Khayyam | Light Quotes

Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum! - Omar Khayyam | Money Quotes

There was the door to which I found no key, There was the veil through which 1 might not see. - Omar Khayyam | Mystery Quotes

A book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread�and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness� Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow! - Omar Khayyam | Paradise Quotes

All this of Pot and Potter�Tell me then, Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? - Omar Khayyam | Pottery Quotes

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You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a second marriage in my house; Divorced old barren reason from my bed, And took the daughter of the vine to spouse. - Omar Khayyam | Reason Quotes

0 thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with predestin'd evil round Enmesh, and then impute my fall to sin. - Omar Khayyam | Sin Quotes

And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to it for help�for it As impotently moves as you or I. - Omar Khayyam | Sky Quotes

The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires. - Omar Khayyam | Solitude Quotes

I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell." - Omar Khayyam | Soul Quotes

Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose. That Youth's sweetscented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang Ah whence and whither flown again, who knows? - Omar Khayyam | Spring Quotes

The bird of time has but a little way To flutter�and the bird is on the wing. - Omar Khayyam | Time Quotes

Tomorrow!�Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years. - Omar Khayyam | Tomorrow Quotes

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Oscar Wilde Quotes and Quotations

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster. - Oscar Wilde | Acting and the Theatre Quotes

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. - Oscar Wilde | Advice Quotes

(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. - Oscar Wilde | America and Americans Quotes

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. - Oscar Wilde | Art and the Artist Quotes

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. - Oscar Wilde | Censorship Quotes

At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been. - Oscar Wilde | Character and Personality Quotes

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. - Oscar Wilde | The City and the Country Quotes

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. - Oscar Wilde | Consistency Quotes

If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any. - Oscar Wilde | Crime and Punishment Quotes

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When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. - Oscar Wilde | Critics and Criticism Quotes

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde | Cynicism Quotes

He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him. - Oscar Wilde | Enemies Quotes

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde | Enemies Quotes

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes. - Oscar Wilde | Experience Quotes

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. - Oscar Wilde | Fear Quotes

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. - Oscar Wilde | Genius Quotes

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us. - Oscar Wilde | Hypocrisy Quotes

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. - Oscar Wilde | Hypocrisy Quotes

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I am not young enough to know everything. - Oscar Wilde | Knowledge Quotes

For he who lives more lives than one, more deaths than one must die. - Oscar Wilde | Life Quotes

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us. - Oscar Wilde | Memory Quotes

Men become old, but they never become good. - Oscar Wilde | Men Quotes

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. - Oscar Wilde | Men and Women Quotes

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. - Oscar Wilde | Men and Women Quotes

To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. - Oscar Wilde | Observation Quotes

Pessimist - one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. - Oscar Wilde | Optimism and Pessimism Quotes

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. - Oscar Wilde | Passion and the Heart Quotes

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. - Oscar Wilde | Personal Appearance Quotes

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A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude. - Oscar Wilde | Politeness and Manners Quotes

Only the shallow know themselves. - Oscar Wilde | Quips and Comments Quotes

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone. - Oscar Wilde | Revolution and Reform Quotes

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons. - Oscar Wilde | Revolution and Reform Quotes

My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality. - Oscar Wilde | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly. - Oscar Wilde | Society and Social Quotes

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde | Teachers and Teaching Quotes

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. - Oscar Wilde | Temptation Quotes

Punctuality is the thief of time. - Oscar Wilde | Time Quotes

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. - Oscar Wilde | Truth Quotes

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. - Oscar Wilde | War Quotes

Work is the curse of the drinking classes. - Oscar Wilde | Work Quotes

This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again. - Oscar Wilde | Writers and Writing Quotes

I've put my genius into my life; I've only put my talent into my works. - Oscar Wilde | Writers and Writing Quotes

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. - Oscar Wilde | Happiness Quotes

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be. - Oscar Wilde | Acceptance Quotes

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde | Forgiveness Quotes

The basis of optimism is sheer terror. - Oscar Wilde | Forgiveness Quotes

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead. - Oscar Wilde | Other Side Quotes

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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. - Oscar Wilde | Prayer Quotes

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing. - Oscar Wilde | Simplicity Quotes

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. - Oscar Wilde | The Past Quotes

Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too. - Oscar Wilde | Change Quotes

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. - Oscar Wilde | Change Quotes

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. - Oscar Wilde | Creating Positive Change Quotes

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself, and passion has its dreams. - Oscar Wilde | Instincts Quotes

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. - Oscar Wilde | Motivation Quotes

Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness. - Oscar Wilde | Goals Quotes

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde | Goals Quotes

To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die. - Oscar Wilde | Security Quotes

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. - Oscar Wilde | Risks Quotes

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. - Oscar Wilde | Adversity Quotes

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it. - Oscar Wilde | Events Quotes

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde | Family Quotes

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. - Oscar Wilde | Friends Quotes

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve. - Oscar Wilde | Heartbreak Quotes

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. - Oscar Wilde | Introspection Quotes

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. - Oscar Wilde | Life Quotes

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. - Oscar Wilde | Wealth Quotes

When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old�I know it is. - Oscar Wilde | Money Quotes

The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything. - Oscar Wilde | Age Quotes

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong. - Oscar Wilde | Argument Quotes

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. - Oscar Wilde | Bachelor Quotes

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. - Oscar Wilde | Biography Quotes

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all. - Oscar Wilde | Books Quotes

The best way to make children good is to make them happy. - Oscar Wilde | Childhood Quotes

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword. - Oscar Wilde | Crime Quotes

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde | Cynicism Quotes

For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die. - Oscar Wilde | Death Quotes

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. - Oscar Wilde | Discontent Quotes

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde | Education Quotes

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde | Enemy Quotes

I can believe anything, provided it is incredible. - Oscar Wilde | Faith Quotes

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde | Fashion Quotes

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. - Oscar Wilde | Gossip Quotes

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. - Oscar Wilde | Hypocrisy Quotes

Men know life too early, women know life too late. - Oscar Wilde | Life Quotes

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read. - Oscar Wilde | Literature Quotes

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. - Oscar Wilde | Marriage Quotes

Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious: both are disappointed. - Oscar Wilde | Marriage Quotes

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written. - Oscar Wilde | Pity Quotes

I know not whether laws be right, Or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. - Oscar Wilde | Prison Quotes

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. - Oscar Wilde | Relative Quotes

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. - Oscar Wilde | Sincerity Quotes

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To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people. - Oscar Wilde | Society Quotes

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you. - Oscar Wilde | Tact Quotes

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. - Oscar Wilde | Teaching Quotes

I can resist everything except temptation. - Oscar Wilde | Temptation Quotes

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want? - Oscar Wilde | Tobacco Quotes

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. - Oscar Wilde | War Quotes

There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. - Oscar Wilde | Women Quotes

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Pablo Picasso Quotes and Quotations

Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter. - Pablo Picasso | Art and the Artist Quotes

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso | Art and the Artist Quotes

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso | Art and the Artist Quotes

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso | Art and the Artist Quotes

I do not seek. I find. - Pablo Picasso | Creation and Creativity Quotes

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. - Pablo Picasso | Genius Quotes

God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. - Pablo Picasso | God Quotes

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand. - Pablo Picasso | Painters and Painting Quotes

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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso | Painters and Painting Quotes

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. - Pablo Picasso | Painters and Painting Quotes

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. - Pablo Picasso | Painters and Painting Quotes

Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out. - Pablo Picasso | Photography Quotes

Taste is the enemy of creativeness. - Pablo Picasso | Taste Quotes

It takes a long time to become young. - Pablo Picasso | Youth Quotes

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few ... if you are lucky. - Pablo Picasso | Friendship Quotes

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. - Pablo Picasso | Right Quotes

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. - Pablo Picasso | Success Quotes

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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso | Applause Quotes

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun. - Pablo Picasso | Applause Quotes

I'd like to live like a poor man� only with lots of money. - Pablo Picasso | Money Quotes

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes and Quotations

History is: Fables agreed upon - Voltaire The biography of a few stout and earnest persons - Ralph Waldo Emerson A vast Mississippi of falsehood - Matthew Arnold A confused heap of facts - Lord Chesterfield A cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man - Percy Bysshe Shelley | History and Historians Quotes

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Imagination Quotes

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Poets and Poetry Quotes

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself. - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself. - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Self-Control Quotes

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. - Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Past Quotes

If winter comes, can spring be far behind? - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Difficult Days Quotes

If winter comes, can spring be far behind? - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Hope Quotes

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It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a Being beyond its limits capable of creating it. - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Creation Quotes

As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic. - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Criticism Quotes

First our pleasures die�and then Our hopes, and then our fears�and when These are dead, the debt is due, Dust claims dust�and we die too. - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Death Quotes

Jealousy's eyes are green. - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Jealousy Quotes

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight. - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Joy Quotes

See! the mountains kiss high heaven, And the waves clasp one another; No sister flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea:� What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me? - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Kiss Quotes

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Kiss Quotes

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Lark Quotes

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January grey is here, Like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, March with grief doth howl and rave, And April weeps�but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers. - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Months Quotes

That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon. - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Moon Quotes

How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mold a pin, or fabricate a nail! - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Obscurity Quotes

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science. - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Poetry Quotes

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Song Quotes

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Winter Quotes

How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail! - Percy Bysshe Shelley | Work Quotes

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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes and Quotations

Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness. - Rainer Maria Rilke | Art and the Artist Quotes

The gnarled fidelity of an old habit. - Rainer Maria Rilke | Habit and Tradition Quotes

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name. - Rainer Maria Rilke | Fame and Celebrities Quotes

Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen. - Rainer Maria Rilke | The Future Quotes

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. - Rainer Maria Rilke | Greatness Quotes

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. - Rainer Maria Rilke | Love Quotes

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky. - Rainer Maria Rilke | Marriage Quotes

Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act. - Rainer Maria Rilke | Memory Quotes

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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain? - Rainer Maria Rilke | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered. - Rainer Maria Rilke | Other Side Quotes

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. - Rainer Maria Rilke | Self-Confidence Quotes

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. - Rainer Maria Rilke | Self-Reliance Quotes

Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. - Rainer Maria Rilke | One Day Quotes

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. - Rainer Maria Rilke | Boring Days Quotes

Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown. - Rainer Maria Rilke | Difficult Days Quotes

Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back. - Rainer Maria Rilke | Change Quotes

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one. - Rainer Maria Rilke | Success and Happiness Quotes

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Nothing in this world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen. - Rainer Maria Rilke | Ignorance Quotes

That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being in the mood, but always forcibly to convert it into all things. - Rainer Maria Rilke | Getting Going Quotes

Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what. - Rainer Maria Rilke | Success Quotes

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. - Rainer Maria Rilke | Life Quotes

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. - Rainer Maria Rilke | Lighten up Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes and Quotations

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ability and Achievement Quotes

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ability and Achievement Quotes

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ability and Achievement Quotes

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ability and Achievement Quotes

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Action Quotes

It is time to be old, To take in sail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Aging and Old Age Quotes

A good indignation brings out all one's powers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Anger Quotes

The flowering of geometry. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Architects and Architecture Quotes

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Arguments and Quarrels Quotes

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Art and the Artist Quotes

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Art and the Artist Quotes

Beauty without expression tires. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Beauty Quotes

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Beauty Quotes

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its ends. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Beauty Quotes

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestions, the raw material of possible poems and histories. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Books and Reading Quotes

Tis the good reader that makes the good book. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Books and Reading Quotes

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Change and Transience Quotes

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Character and Personality Quotes

Character is that which can do without success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Character and Personality Quotes

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Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | The City and the Country Quotes

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Civilization Quotes

An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Clubs and Institutions Quotes

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Consistency Quotes

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Courage and Bravery Quotes

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Creation and Creativity Quotes

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Cynicism Quotes

The question is whether suicide is the way out, or the way in. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Death and Dying Quotes

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Deception Quotes

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I pay the School Master, but 'tis the school boys that educate my son. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Education Quotes

The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Education Quotes

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | England and the U.K. Quotes

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Experience Quotes

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being welldressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility, which religion is powerless to bestow. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Fashion Quotes

Whatever limits us we call Fate. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Fate and Destiny Quotes

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friends and Friendship Quotes

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friends and Friendship Quotes

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Genius Quotes

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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Genius Quotes

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Goals and Ambition Quotes

God enters by a private door into every individual. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | God Quotes

In nature, nothing can be given, all things are sold. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Goodness and Giving Quotes

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Goodness and Giving Quotes

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Goodness and Giving Quotes

The only gift is a portion of thyself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Goodness and Giving Quotes

Take egotism out, and you would castrate the benefactor. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Goodness and Giving Quotes

A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Greatness Quotes

Calmness is always Godlike. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Greatness Quotes

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A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Heredity Quotes

Every hero becomes a bore at last. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Heroes and Heroism Quotes

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Heroes and Heroism Quotes

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | History and Historians Quotes

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair the rest of his life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Home Quotes

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Homo Sapiens Quotes

The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Homo Sapiens Quotes

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Homo Sapiens Quotes

Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Homo Sapiens Quotes

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The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Honour Quotes

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, 100 things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom! - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Human Relations Quotes

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Human Relations Quotes

Make yourself necessary to somebody. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Human Relations Quotes

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Hypocrisy Quotes

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ignorance Quotes

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Imagination Quotes

Every man is a borrower and a mimic; life is theatrical and literature a quotation. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Imitation Quotes

If you shoot at a king you must kill him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Leaders and Leadership Quotes

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Life Quotes

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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Life Quotes

The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Life Quotes

I can find my biography in every fable that I read. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Literature Quotes

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Literature Quotes

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Medicine and Sickness Quotes

Men are what their mothers made them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Men Quotes

Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Minorities Quotes

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature Quotes

Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature Quotes

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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Observation Quotes

The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there's a great difference in the beholders. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Observation Quotes

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Observation Quotes

People only see what they are prepared to see. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Observation Quotes

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ownership and Possession Quotes

The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Peace Quotes

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Personal Appearance Quotes

Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Poets and Poetry Quotes

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Politeness and Manners Quotes

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Politeness and Manners Quotes

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There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Politics Quotes

A good indignation brings out all one's powers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Power Quotes

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Power Quotes

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Praise and Flattery Quotes

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Revolution and Reform Quotes

The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Religion Quotes

There is a crack in everything God has made. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Religion Quotes

No sensible person ever made an apology. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Repentance and Apology Quotes

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom! - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Sanity and Insanity Quotes

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Sanity is very rare; every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Sanity and Insanity Quotes

Self-command is the main elegance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Weariness Quotes

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Society and Social Quotes

We never touch but at points. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Solitude Quotes

Sorrow makes us all children again. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Sorrow Quotes

There are some men above grief and some men below it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Sorrow Quotes

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Speakers and Speeches Quotes

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Speakers and Speeches Quotes

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What is success? To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; That is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Success Quotes

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits, otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and ridiculous. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Travel and Travellers Quotes

Make yourself necessary to somebody. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Trust Quotes

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Truth Quotes

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Vice Quotes

The first wealth is health. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Wealth Quotes

A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Wisdom Quotes

A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Women Quotes

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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Work Quotes

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Writers and Writing Quotes

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Writers and Writing Quotes

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse as his portion. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Education Quotes

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Unhappiness Quotes

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Peace of Mind Quotes

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Happiness Quotes

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Happiness Quotes

Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Happiness Quotes

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To fill the hour, and leave no crevice ... that is happiness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Happiness Quotes

The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Happiness Quotes

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Happiness Quotes

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Happiness Quotes

No man can have society upon his own terms. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Acceptance Quotes

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Acceptance Quotes

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Acceptance Quotes

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Forgiveness Quotes

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Forgiveness Quotes

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Forgiveness Quotes

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There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich, who want something more; that of the sick, who want something different; and that of the traveler, who says, "Anywhere but here." - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Other Side Quotes

Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Other Side Quotes

Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Helping Other People Quotes

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Helping Other People Quotes

The only gift is a portion of thyself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Helping Other People Quotes

Make yourself necessary to somebody. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Helping Other People Quotes

We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all-friends. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes

The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes

No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes

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The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes

How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes

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God enters by a private door into every individual. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | God Quotes

To Be is to live with God. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | God Quotes

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Faith and Belief Quotes

A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Faith and Belief Quotes

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Faith and Unity Quotes

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Prayer Quotes

Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Prayer Quotes

Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Prayer Quotes

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self-Knowledge Quotes

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self-Acceptance Quotes

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Self-command is the main elegance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self-Control Quotes

Self-trust is the first secret of success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self-Confidence Quotes

Discontent is want of self-discipline; it is infirmity of will. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self-Reliance Quotes

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self-Reliance Quotes

To be simple is to be great. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Simplicity Quotes

It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Simplicity Quotes

Who loses a day loses life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | One Day Quotes

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | One Day Quotes

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | One Day Quotes

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He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | One Day Quotes

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | One Day Quotes

To fill the hour, that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | One Day Quotes

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | One Day Quotes

A day is a miniature eternity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | One Day Quotes

The surest poison is time. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | One Day Quotes

This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Past Quotes

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? - Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Past Quotes

The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Present Quotes

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This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Present Quotes

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Present Quotes

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly in to the future; but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Present Quotes

Live wastes itself while we are preparing to live. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Present Quotes

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | This Moment Quotes

God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Mornings Quotes

If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Future Quotes

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Boring Days Quotes

We look wishfully to emergencies, to eventful, revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Boring Days Quotes

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They sicken of the calm that know the storm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Boring Days Quotes

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Difficult Days Quotes

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Difficult Days Quotes

Patience and fortitude conquer all things. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Difficult Days Quotes

People only see what they are prepared to see. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Positive Quotes

A man is what he thinks about all day long. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Positive Quotes

The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts, and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Positive Quotes

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Positive Quotes

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Positive Quotes

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There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Positive Quotes

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Positive Quotes

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Positive Quotes

Skill to do comes of doing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Positive Quotes

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Enthusiasm Quotes

The world belongs to the energetic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Enthusiasm Quotes

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Enthusiasm Quotes

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Enthusiasm Quotes

A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Hope Quotes

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When there is no vision, people perish. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Visualization Quotes

We change, whether we like it or not. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Change Quotes

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Creating Positive Change Quotes

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Creating Positive Change Quotes

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Creating Positive Change Quotes

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Decisions Quotes

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please-you can never have both. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Decisions Quotes

Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Instincts Quotes

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Instincts Quotes

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The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Right Quotes

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Right Quotes

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Right Quotes

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Motivation Quotes

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Realistic Expectations Quotes

We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Goals Quotes

Fear always springs from ignorance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Fear Quotes

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Fear Quotes

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Success and Happiness Quotes

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Success and Happiness Quotes

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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Other Ways to Overcome Fear Quotes

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Other Ways to Overcome Fear Quotes

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Worry Quotes

Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Worry Quotes

Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Risks Quotes

As soon as there is life, there is danger. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Risks Quotes

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Courage Quotes

Whatever you do, you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Courage Quotes

Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Courage Quotes

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Courage consists of the power of self-recovery. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Courage Quotes

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Courage Quotes

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Courage Quotes

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap? - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Getting Going Quotes

We are always getting ready to live, but never living. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Getting Going Quotes

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Women's Movement Quotes

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Success Quotes

Self-trust is the first secret of success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Success Quotes

The world belongs to the energetic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Success Quotes

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Success Quotes

Whatever you do, you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Success Quotes

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Success Quotes

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Success Quotes

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Success Quotes

To believe in luck ... is skepticism. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Luck Quotes

Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Luck Quotes

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Luck Quotes

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Opportunity Quotes

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Opportunity Quotes

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The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Commitment and Belief Quotes

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Commitment and Belief Quotes

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Commitment and Belief Quotes

The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Work Quotes

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

Difficulties exist to be surmounted. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Problems Quotes

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When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits; on his manhood; he has gained the facts; learned his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Adversity Quotes

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Adversity Quotes

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crises, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride! - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Adversity Quotes

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits ... he has gained facts, learned his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit, has got moderation and real skill. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Adversity Quotes

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Adversity Quotes

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Adversity Quotes

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Worthy Victories Quotes

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self-Pity Quotes

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Give all to love; obey thy heart. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Faith Quotes

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Applause Quotes

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Beauty Quotes

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we will not find it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Beauty Quotes

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Family Quotes

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Family Quotes

The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Family Quotes

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Lighten up Quotes

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature Quotes

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Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature Quotes

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature Quotes

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature Quotes

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature Quotes

Nature is saturated with deity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature Quotes

Earth laughs in flowers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature Quotes

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature Quotes

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature Quotes

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature Quotes

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Peace Quotes

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The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he until he has tried. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Peace Quotes

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Spirituality Quotes

Hitch your wagon to a star. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ambition Quotes

America is a country of young men. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | America Quotes

No sensible person ever made an apology. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Apology Quotes

Every burned book enlightens the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Censorship Quotes

Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | City Quotes

A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Civilization Quotes

We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Civilization Quotes

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If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Clergyman Quotes

We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night. Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Conservatism Quotes

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Consistency Quotes

Culture, with us, ends in headache. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Culture Quotes

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill! - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Debt Quotes

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Duty Quotes

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Education Quotes

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Enemy Quotes

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Enthusiasm Quotes

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If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hardbeaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Excellence Quotes

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Expert Quotes

AH I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Faith Quotes

Fear always springs from ignorance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Fear Quotes

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Forgiveness Quotes

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Freedom Quotes

For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail? - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Cowardice Quotes

The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friends Quotes

All great men come out of the middle classes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Greatness Quotes

The first wealth is health. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Health Quotes

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Every hero becomes a bore at last. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Hero Quotes

There is properly no history, only biography. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | History Quotes

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ideas Quotes

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Independence Quotes

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Individuality Quotes

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Knowledge Quotes

If a man own land, the land owns him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Land Quotes

Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Life Quotes

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Lincoln Quotes

All mankind love a lover. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Love Quotes

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Man is a piece of the universe made alive. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Man Quotes

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Marriage Quotes

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Mobs Quotes

Men are what their mothers made them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Mother Quotes

Obedience alone gives the right to command. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Obedience Quotes

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Occupation Quotes

Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Oratory Quotes

Pictures must not be too picturesque. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Painting Quotes

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Patience Quotes

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Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Philanthropy Quotes

When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life." - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Plagiarism Quotes

All men are poets at heart. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Poet Quotes

The greatest man in history was the poorest. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Poverty Quotes

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Preaching Quotes

Pride ruined the angels. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Pride Quotes

We are reformers in Spring and Summer; in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Reform Quotes

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches! - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Riches Quotes

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Science Quotes

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Simplicity Quotes

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If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Slavery Quotes

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Soul Quotes

Hitch your wagon to a star. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Star Quotes

Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Swans Quotes

The only reward of virtue is virtue. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Virtue Quotes

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd; Here once the embattl'd farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | War Quotes

Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Wonder Quotes

Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou are not my friend; I am not thine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | World Quotes

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Worship Quotes

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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Writing Quotes

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Robert Frost Quotes and Quotations

The only way round is through. - Robert Frost | Ability and Achievement Quotes

I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost | Aging and Old Age Quotes

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. - Robert Frost | America and Americans Quotes

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost | Chance and Fortune Quotes

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. - Robert Frost | Conversation Quotes

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever. - Robert Frost | Conviction and Belief Quotes

I had a lover's quarrel with the world. - Robert Frost | Death and Dying Quotes

There may be little or much beyond the grave, But the strong are saying nothing until they see. - Robert Frost | Death and Dying Quotes

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. - Robert Frost | Education Quotes

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. - Robert Frost | Happiness Quotes

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. - Robert Frost | The Home Quotes

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument. - Robert Frost | Human Relations Quotes

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot. - Robert Frost | Humour and Humorists Quotes

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. - Robert Frost | Ideas Quotes

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost | Law and Lawyers Quotes

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman. - Robert Frost | Law and Lawyers Quotes

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. - Robert Frost | Life Quotes

You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference. - Robert Frost | Love Quotes

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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. - Robert Frost | Mistakes and Blunders Quotes

You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination - what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad. - Robert Frost | Morality and Ethics Quotes

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular. - Robert Frost | Parenthood Quotes

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books. - Robert Frost | Poets and Poetry Quotes

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. - Robert Frost | Poets and Poetry Quotes

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. - Robert Frost | Poets and Poetry Quotes

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. - Robert Frost | Poets and Poetry Quotes

A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. - Robert Frost | Politicians Quotes

Don't be agnostic - be something. - Robert Frost | Religion Quotes

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To be social is to be forgiving. - Robert Frost | Society and Social Quotes

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. - Robert Frost | Society and Social Quotes

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew. - Robert Frost | Thinking and Thought Quotes

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day. - Robert Frost | Work Quotes

No tears and the writer, no tears and the reader. - Robert Frost | Writers and Writing Quotes

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept.... My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with. - Robert Frost | Acceptance Quotes

To be social is to be forgiving. - Robert Frost | Friendship Quotes

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. - Robert Frost | Boring Days Quotes

I always entertain great hopes. - Robert Frost | Hope Quotes

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There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people. - Robert Frost | Fear Quotes

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. - Robert Frost | Worry Quotes

The middle of the road is where the white line is, and that's the worst place to drive. - Robert Frost | Commitment Quotes

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. - Robert Frost | Action Quotes

Education is hanging around until you've caught on. - Robert Frost | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich. - Robert Frost | Adversity Quotes

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost | Passion Quotes

Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost | Family Quotes

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. - Robert Frost | Professions and Work Quotes

Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent. - Robert Frost | Money Quotes

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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes and Quotations

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment? - Robert Louis Stevenson | Ability and Achievement Quotes

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Absence Quotes

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Aging and Old Age Quotes

Everyone lives by selling something. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Buying and Selling Quotes

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Fools and Foolishness Quotes

Extreme busyness, whether at school, or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Idleness Quotes

The cruellest lies are often told in silence. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Liars and Lying Quotes

Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Marriage Quotes

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it they are wrong. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Morality and Ethics Quotes

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Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Prayer Quotes

The cruellest lies are often told in silence. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Silence Quotes

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Travel and Travellers Quotes

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Travel and Travellers Quotes

The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Virtue Quotes

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Words and Language Quotes

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Work Quotes

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Work Quotes

There is but one art, to omit. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Writers and Writing Quotes

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There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Happiness Quotes

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Happiness Quotes

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Happiness Quotes

To forget oneself is to be happy. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Happiness Quotes

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Happiness Quotes

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Forgiveness Quotes

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Friendship Quotes

A friend is a present you give to yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Friendship Quotes

A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Prayer Quotes

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To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Self-Reliance Quotes

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly. - Robert Louis Stevenson | One Day Quotes

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. - Robert Louis Stevenson | One Day Quotes

The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces; let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Mornings Quotes

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Change Quotes

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Creating Positive Change Quotes

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable, in retrospect. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Decisions Quotes

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Right Quotes

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To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Right Quotes

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Goals Quotes

You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? - Robert Louis Stevenson | Success and Happiness Quotes

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Other Ways to Overcome Fear Quotes

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Risks Quotes

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Courage Quotes

Courage is the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Courage Quotes

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Getting Going Quotes

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Getting Going Quotes

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Success Quotes

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment? - Robert Louis Stevenson | Success Quotes

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Opportunity Quotes

Saints are sinners who kept on going. - Robert Louis Stevenson | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Friends Quotes

The essence of love is kindness. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Life Quotes

The essence of love is kindness. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Lighten up Quotes

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It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In every Christian kind of place. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Childhood Quotes

I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Church Quotes

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Grave Quotes

Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to anther. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Prayer Quotes

Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth; and none, or almost none, for the disenchantments of age. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Youth Quotes

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself. - Robert Louis Stevenson | Youth Quotes

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Rudyard Kipling Quotes and Quotations

There was a small boy of Quebec Who was buried in snow to the neck: When they said 'Are you friz?' He replied 'Yes, I is - But we don't call this cold in Quebec!' - Rudyard Kipling | Canada and Canadians Quotes

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give away to hating And yet don't look too good nor talk to wise; If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two imposters just the same, If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss . . . If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son! - Rudyard Kipling | Character and Personality Quotes

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards. - Rudyard Kipling | Education Quotes

What should they know of England, who only England know? - Rudyard Kipling | England and the U.K. Quotes

I keep six honest serving-men they taught me all I know; their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who, - Rudyard Kipling | Observation Quotes

There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, and every single one of them is right. - Rudyard Kipling | Poets and Poetry Quotes

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Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit. - Rudyard Kipling | Ruin Quotes

No one thinks of Winter when the grass is green. - Rudyard Kipling | The Seasons Quotes

All the people like us are We, And everyone else is They. - Rudyard Kipling | Snobs and Snobbishness Quotes

I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who. - Rudyard Kipling | Writers and Writing Quotes

Gawd knows, and 'E won't split on a pal. - Rudyard Kipling | God Quotes

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling | This Moment Quotes

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. - Rudyard Kipling | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

It's clever, but is it art? - Rudyard Kipling | Art Quotes

For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins. - Rudyard Kipling | Equality Quotes

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They're hangin' Danny Deever in the morning! - Rudyard Kipling | Hanging Quotes

Still stands thine ancient sacrifice� An humble and a contrite heart. - Rudyard Kipling | Heart Quotes

Take up the white man's burden� Send forth the best ye breed� Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need. - Rudyard Kipling | Imperialism Quotes

Sing, for faith and hope are high� None so true as you and I� Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!" - Rudyard Kipling | Love Quotes

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And�which is more�you'll be a man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling | Man Quotes

Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din. - Rudyard Kipling | Man Quotes

Make ye no truce with Adam-zad�the Bear that walks like a man. - Rudyard Kipling | Man Quotes

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! - Rudyard Kipling | Mother Quotes

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The sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one. - Rudyard Kipling | Sin Quotes

For it's Tommy this an' Tommy that, and "Chuck 'im out, the brute." But it's "Savior of 'is country," when the guns begin to shoot. - Rudyard Kipling | Soldier Quotes

But that is another story. - Rudyard Kipling | Story-Telling Quotes

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. - Rudyard Kipling | Tobacco Quotes

Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. - Rudyard Kipling | Traveling Quotes

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. - Rudyard Kipling | Women Quotes

An' I learned about women from 'er. - Rudyard Kipling | Women Quotes

The colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins. - Rudyard Kipling | Women Quotes

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. - Rudyard Kipling | Women Quotes

A rag and a bone and a hank of hair. - Rudyard Kipling | Women Quotes

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A fool there was and he made his prayer (Even as you and I!) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care) But the fool he called her his lady fair� (Even as you or I!) - Rudyard Kipling | Wooing Quotes

Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind. - Rudyard Kipling | Word Quotes

And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame; But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of things as They Are! - Rudyard Kipling | Work Quotes

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Samuel Butler Quotes and Quotations

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. - Samuel Butler | Animals Quotes

I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies. - Samuel Butler | Books and Reading Quotes

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. - Samuel Butler | Books and Reading Quotes

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes. - Samuel Butler | Books and Reading Quotes

I can generally bear the separation, but I don't like the leave-taking. - Samuel Butler | Change and Transience Quotes

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practised. - Samuel Butler | Christians and Christianity Quotes

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred, and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. - Samuel Butler | Conscience Quotes

Neither have they hearts to stay, Nor wit enough to run away. - Samuel Butler | Courage and Bravery Quotes

The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence. - Samuel Butler | Critics and Criticism Quotes

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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is to die at once. - Samuel Butler | Death and Dying Quotes

If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death. - Samuel Butler | Death and Dying Quotes

Life is like playing a violin solo in public, and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler | Experience Quotes

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row, we are steered by fate. - Samuel Butler | Fate and Destiny Quotes

It does not matter much what a man hates, provided he hates something. - Samuel Butler | Hatred Quotes

An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. - Samuel Butler | Hell and the Devil Quotes

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. - Samuel Butler | Heredity Quotes

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence. - Samuel Butler | History and Historians Quotes

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. - Samuel Butler | Hypocrisy Quotes

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The public do not know enough to be experts, yet know enough to decide between them. - Samuel Butler | Knowledge Quotes

A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. - Samuel Butler | Law and Lawyers Quotes

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. - Samuel Butler | Liars and Lying Quotes

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. - Samuel Butler | Liars and Lying Quotes

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler | Life Quotes

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler | Life Quotes

Life is one long process of getting tired. - Samuel Butler | Life Quotes

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. - Samuel Butler | Love Quotes

I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. - Samuel Butler | Medicine and Sickness Quotes

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is to die at once. - Samuel Butler | Money Quotes

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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense; but some are greater nonsense than others. - Samuel Butler | Philosophy Quotes

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. - Samuel Butler | Praise and Flattery Quotes

All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler | Progress Quotes

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence. - Samuel Butler | Tact and Diplomacy Quotes

People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. - Samuel Butler | Taste Quotes

Loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game; True as a dial to the sun, Although it be not shined upon. - Samuel Butler | Trust Quotes

To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it. - Samuel Butler | Trust Quotes

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds. - Samuel Butler | Vice Quotes

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal. - Samuel Butler | Virtue Quotes

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. - Samuel Butler | Friends and Money Quotes

All animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler | Happiness Quotes

People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. - Samuel Butler | Acceptance Quotes

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget. - Samuel Butler | Friendship Quotes

Faith is a kind of betting, or speculation. - Samuel Butler | Faith and Unity Quotes

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. - Samuel Butler | Faith and Unity Quotes

Our self-conceit sustains, and always must sustain us. - Samuel Butler | Self-Confidence Quotes

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the Kingdom of Heaven, rather than without. - Samuel Butler | Self-Reliance Quotes

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler | Simplicity Quotes

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What runs through a person like water through a sieve. - Samuel Butler | One Day Quotes

Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone. - Samuel Butler | This Moment Quotes

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters. - Samuel Butler | Creating Positive Change Quotes

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held, and not in the dogma or want of dogma, that the danger lies. - Samuel Butler | Creating Positive Change Quotes

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler | Decisions Quotes

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler | Decisions Quotes

The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof. - Samuel Butler | Decisions Quotes

To live is like to love: all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it. - Samuel Butler | Instincts Quotes

No matter how ill we may be, nor how low we may have fallen, we should not change identity with any other person. - Samuel Butler | Right Quotes

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All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler | Motivation Quotes

People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. - Samuel Butler | Realistic Expectations Quotes

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler | Goals Quotes

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. - Samuel Butler | Other Ways to Overcome Fear Quotes

There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain. - Samuel Butler | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. - Samuel Butler | Success Quotes

We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire. - Samuel Butler | Success Quotes

To live is like to love�all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. - Samuel Butler | Life Quotes

Man, unlike the animal, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler | Lighten up Quotes

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The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too. - Samuel Butler | Peace Quotes

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. - Samuel Butler | Spirituality Quotes

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler | Money Quotes

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. - Samuel Butler | Lying Quotes

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Samuel Johnson Quotes and Quotations

(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free from admirers then. - Samuel Johnson | Adversity Quotes

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. - Samuel Johnson | Advertising Quotes

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge. - Samuel Johnson | Books and Reading Quotes

Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true. - Samuel Johnson | Books and Reading Quotes

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true. - Samuel Johnson | Censorship Quotes

Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God. - Samuel Johnson | Conscience Quotes

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments. - Samuel Johnson | Conversation Quotes

John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do. - Samuel Johnson | Conversation Quotes

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Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy, and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. - Samuel Johnson | Conviction and Belief Quotes

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice. - Samuel Johnson | Courage and Bravery Quotes

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. - Samuel Johnson | Habit and Tradition Quotes

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful. - Samuel Johnson | Drink, Drinking and Drinkers Quotes

Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult. - Samuel Johnson | Drink, Drinking and Drinkers Quotes

One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts. - Samuel Johnson | Drink, Drinking and Drinkers Quotes

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other. - Samuel Johnson | Education Quotes

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. - Samuel Johnson | Enjoyment and Pleasure Quotes

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. - Samuel Johnson | Food Quotes

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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence. - Samuel Johnson | Fools and Foolishness Quotes

A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. - Samuel Johnson | Friends and Friendship Quotes

The future is purchased by the present. - Samuel Johnson | The Future Quotes

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. - Samuel Johnson | Genius Quotes

I have found men more kind than I expected, and less just. - Samuel Johnson | Goodness and Giving Quotes

Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? - Samuel Johnson | Goodness and Giving Quotes

A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion. - Samuel Johnson | Honesty Quotes

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords. - Samuel Johnson | Hope Quotes

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. - Samuel Johnson | Hypocrisy Quotes

Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. - Samuel Johnson | Imagination Quotes

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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. - Samuel Johnson | Imitation Quotes

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other a horse still. - Samuel Johnson | Insults and Calumny Quotes

Knowledge is of two kinds; we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. - Samuel Johnson | Knowledge Quotes

A man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. - Samuel Johnson | Knowledge Quotes

Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength. - Samuel Johnson | Knowledge Quotes

It is the just doom of laziness and a gluttony to be inactive without ease, and drowsy without tranquillity. - Samuel Johnson | Laziness Quotes

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth. - Samuel Johnson | Liars and Lying Quotes

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence. - Samuel Johnson | Life Quotes

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. - Samuel Johnson | Life Quotes

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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. - Samuel Johnson | Marriage Quotes

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. - Samuel Johnson | Marriage Quotes

Marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor. - Samuel Johnson | Marriage Quotes

It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood. - Samuel Johnson | Maturity Quotes

The true art of memory is the art of attention. - Samuel Johnson | Memory Quotes

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women. - Samuel Johnson | Men and Women Quotes

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else. - Samuel Johnson | Music Quotes

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive . - Samuel Johnson | Politeness and Manners Quotes

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. - Samuel Johnson | Politeness and Manners Quotes

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. - Samuel Johnson | Praise and Flattery Quotes

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Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages. - Samuel Johnson | Pride Quotes

Oats, n.s. A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. - Samuel Johnson | Quips and Comments Quotes

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. - Samuel Johnson | Retirement Quotes

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. - Samuel Johnson | The Sea Quotes

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. - Samuel Johnson | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. - Samuel Johnson | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. - Samuel Johnson | Silence Quotes

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow. - Samuel Johnson | Sorrow Quotes

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert it only irritates. - Samuel Johnson | Sorrow Quotes

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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. - Samuel Johnson | Thinking and Thought Quotes

As the Spanish proverb says, 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge. - Samuel Johnson | Travel and Travellers Quotes

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. - Samuel Johnson | Trust Quotes

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. - Samuel Johnson | Truth Quotes

It is better to live rich than to die rich. - Samuel Johnson | Wealth Quotes

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves. - Samuel Johnson | Women Quotes

Languages are the pedigree of nations. - Samuel Johnson | Words and Language Quotes

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach. - Samuel Johnson | Writers and Writing Quotes

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. - Samuel Johnson | Writers and Writing Quotes

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The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you. - Samuel Johnson | Writers and Writing Quotes

When an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best. - Samuel Johnson | Writers and Writing Quotes

The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth. - Samuel Johnson | Writers and Writing Quotes

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. - Samuel Johnson | Writers and Writing Quotes

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good. - Samuel Johnson | Writers and Writing Quotes

Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young. - Samuel Johnson | Youth Quotes

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. - Samuel Johnson | Happiness Quotes

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. - Samuel Johnson | Happiness Quotes

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem. - Samuel Johnson | Happiness Quotes

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It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. - Samuel Johnson | Happiness Quotes

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. - Samuel Johnson | Happiness Quotes

Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it the next wish is to change again. - Samuel Johnson | Happiness Quotes

Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own. - Samuel Johnson | Acceptance Quotes

The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us. - Samuel Johnson | Forgiveness Quotes

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. - Samuel Johnson | Forgiveness Quotes

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. - Samuel Johnson | Forgiveness Quotes

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote. - Samuel Johnson | Other Side Quotes

We are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. - Samuel Johnson | Other Side Quotes

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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. - Samuel Johnson | Helping Other People Quotes

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef, love, like being enlivened with champagne. - Samuel Johnson | Friendship Quotes

It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. - Samuel Johnson | Friendship Quotes

No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness of himself. - Samuel Johnson | Friendship Quotes

An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost. - Samuel Johnson | Friendship Quotes

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. - Samuel Johnson | Friendship Quotes

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. - Samuel Johnson | Friendship Quotes

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other. - Samuel Johnson | Friendship Quotes

Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue. - Samuel Johnson | Friendship Quotes

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That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both. - Samuel Johnson | Friendship Quotes

Men only become friends by community of pleasures. - Samuel Johnson | Friendship Quotes

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef. - Samuel Johnson | Friendship Quotes

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions. - Samuel Johnson | Self-Control Quotes

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. - Samuel Johnson | Self-Confidence Quotes

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards. - Samuel Johnson | Simplicity Quotes

An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use. - Samuel Johnson | One Day Quotes

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. - Samuel Johnson | The Present Quotes

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation. - Samuel Johnson | The Present Quotes

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Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages. - Samuel Johnson | The Present Quotes

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. - Samuel Johnson | The Present Quotes

Clear your mind of "can't." - Samuel Johnson | Positive Quotes

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords. - Samuel Johnson | Hope Quotes

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part. - Samuel Johnson | Hope Quotes

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. - Samuel Johnson | Hope Quotes

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. - Samuel Johnson | Role Models Quotes

None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. - Samuel Johnson | Creating Positive Change Quotes

Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing. When we have made it, the next wish is to change again. - Samuel Johnson | Creating Positive Change Quotes

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Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson | Decisions Quotes

O, how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base, uncomely things it makes men do. - Samuel Johnson | Fear Quotes

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four. - Samuel Johnson | Worry Quotes

Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. - Samuel Johnson | Security Quotes

Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. - Samuel Johnson | Risks Quotes

Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. - Samuel Johnson | Courage Quotes

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice. - Samuel Johnson | Courage Quotes

Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson | Getting Going Quotes

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us. - Samuel Johnson | Success Quotes

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Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages. - Samuel Johnson | Opportunity Quotes

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. - Samuel Johnson | Opportunity Quotes

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything. - Samuel Johnson | Concentration Quotes

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. - Samuel Johnson | Concentration Quotes

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson | Perseverance Quotes

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties. - Samuel Johnson | Problems Quotes

He that has much to do will do something wrong. - Samuel Johnson | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers. - Samuel Johnson | Adversity Quotes

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. - Samuel Johnson | Adversity Quotes

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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us. - Samuel Johnson | Adversity Quotes

To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike. - Samuel Johnson | Self-Pity Quotes

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. - Samuel Johnson | Self-Pity Quotes

Despair is criminal. - Samuel Johnson | Self-Pity Quotes

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. - Samuel Johnson | Passion Quotes

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking. - Samuel Johnson | Life Quotes

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. - Samuel Johnson | Applause Quotes

The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live. - Samuel Johnson | Acting Quotes

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. - Samuel Johnson | Charity Quotes

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The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. - Samuel Johnson | Clergyman Quotes

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. - Samuel Johnson | Complaining Quotes

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. - Samuel Johnson | Curiosity Quotes

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us. - Samuel Johnson | Desire Quotes

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. - Samuel Johnson | Difficulty Quotes

For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. - Samuel Johnson | Eating Quotes

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. - Samuel Johnson | Equality Quotes

Example is more efficacious than precept. - Samuel Johnson | Example Quotes

Round numbers are always false. - Samuel Johnson | Falsehood Quotes

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A fishing-rod was a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other. - Samuel Johnson | Fish Quotes

Men are like stone jugs�you may lug them where you like by the ears. - Samuel Johnson | Flattery Quotes

Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. - Samuel Johnson | Friendship Quotes

No man ever yet became great by imitation. - Samuel Johnson | Greatness Quotes

I like a good hater. - Samuel Johnson | Hate Quotes

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. - Samuel Johnson | Impossibility Quotes

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. - Samuel Johnson | Knowledge Quotes

In a man's letters his soul lies naked. - Samuel Johnson | Letter Quotes

The true art of memory is the art of attention. - Samuel Johnson | Memory Quotes

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. - Samuel Johnson | Merriment Quotes

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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. - Samuel Johnson | Mind Quotes

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. - Samuel Johnson | Name Quotes

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. - Samuel Johnson | Patriotism Quotes

Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all. - Samuel Johnson | Preaching Quotes

The first years of man must make provision for the last. - Samuel Johnson | Prudence Quotes

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. - Samuel Johnson | Question Quotes

To be of no Church is dangerous. - Samuel Johnson | Religion Quotes

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. - Samuel Johnson | Royalty Quotes

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. - Samuel Johnson | Speech Quotes

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If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father. - Samuel Johnson | Tears Quotes

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments. - Samuel Johnson | Thrift Quotes

As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. - Samuel Johnson | Traveling Quotes

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better. - Samuel Johnson | Wealth Quotes

When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather. - Samuel Johnson | Weather Quotes

Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience. - Samuel Johnson | Wife Quotes

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. - Samuel Johnson | Wine and Spirits Quotes

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. - Samuel Johnson | Word Quotes

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. - Samuel Johnson | Wrong Quotes

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Sigmund Freud Quotes and Quotations

Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity. - Sigmund Freud | Christians and Christianity Quotes

Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task. - Sigmund Freud | Death and Dying Quotes

From error to error one discovers the entire truth. - Sigmund Freud | Experience Quotes

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being. - Sigmund Freud | Greatness Quotes

A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him. - Sigmund Freud | Heroes and Heroism Quotes

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. - Sigmund Freud | Honesty Quotes

Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies. - Sigmund Freud | Life Quotes

Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get in accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world. - Sigmund Freud | Medicine and Sickness Quotes

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A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. - Sigmund Freud | Men Quotes

Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar. - Sigmund Freud | Quips and Comments Quotes

When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life. - Sigmund Freud | Religion Quotes

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. - Sigmund Freud | Sanity and Insanity Quotes

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home. - Sigmund Freud | Thinking and Thought Quotes

The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is "what does a woman want"? - Sigmund Freud | Women Quotes

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. - Sigmund Freud | Happiness Quotes

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. - Sigmund Freud | Self-Acceptance Quotes

One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. - Sigmund Freud | Difficult Days Quotes

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When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature. - Sigmund Freud | Decisions Quotes

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. - Sigmund Freud | Instincts Quotes

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. - Sigmund Freud | Right Quotes

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it. - Sigmund Freud | Events Quotes

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations. - Sigmund Freud | Possessions Quotes

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. - Sigmund Freud | Faith Quotes

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Sir Francis Bacon Quotes and Quotations

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. - Sir Francis Bacon | Age Quotes

The best work, and of greatest merit for the public, has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men. - Sir Francis Bacon | Bachelor Quotes

A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison. - Sir Francis Bacon | Body Quotes

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Sir Francis Bacon | Books Quotes

Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. - Sir Francis Bacon | Culture Quotes

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. - Sir Francis Bacon | Discration Quotes

The folly of one man is the fortune of another. - Sir Francis Bacon | Folly Quotes

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling. - Sir Francis Bacon | Fortune Quotes

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on. - Sir Francis Bacon | House Quotes

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Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us. - Sir Francis Bacon | Humanity Quotes

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness. - Sir Francis Bacon | Intemperance Quotes

I take all knowledge to be my province. - Sir Francis Bacon | Knowledge Quotes

For knowledge, too, is itself a power. - Sir Francis Bacon | Knowledge Quotes

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. - Sir Francis Bacon | Learning Quotes

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. - Sir Francis Bacon | Marriage Quotes

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage. - Sir Francis Bacon | Marriage Quotes

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto. - Sir Francis Bacon | Occupation Quotes

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. - Sir Francis Bacon | Philosophy Quotes

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Reading maketh a full man. - Sir Francis Bacon | Reading Quotes

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. - Sir Francis Bacon | Religion Quotes

In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior. - Sir Francis Bacon | Revenge Quotes

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. - Sir Francis Bacon | Study Quotes

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other. - Sir Francis Bacon | Superstition Quotes

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. - Sir Francis Bacon | Virtue Quotes

Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses. - Sir Francis Bacon | Wife Quotes

This world's a bubble. - Sir Francis Bacon | World Quotes

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Socrates Quotes and Quotations

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat. - Socrates | Politics Quotes

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing. - Socrates | Happiness Quotes

How many things there are which I do not want. - Socrates | Forgiveness Quotes

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. - Socrates | Forgiveness Quotes

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. - Socrates | Friendship Quotes

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. - Socrates | Prayer Quotes

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates | The Past Quotes

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. - Socrates | Right Quotes

What most counts is not to live, but to live aright. - Socrates | Goals Quotes

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To do is to be. - Socrates | Getting Going Quotes

If a man would move the world, he must first move himself. - Socrates | Women's Movement Quotes

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart. - Socrates | Problems Quotes

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods. - Socrates | Applause Quotes

I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world. - Socrates | Citizen Quotes

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. - Socrates | Fame Quotes

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in continue firm and constant. - Socrates | Friendship Quotes

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades�that of government. - Socrates | Government Quotes

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. - Socrates | Humanity Quotes

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He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed. - Socrates | Idleness Quotes

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially. - Socrates | Judge Quotes

Know thyself. - Socrates | Knowledge Quotes

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. - Socrates | Knowledge Quotes

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. - Socrates | Prayer Quotes

The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods. - Socrates | Simplicity Quotes

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve. - Socrates | Swans Quotes

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. - Socrates | Wise Quotes

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T. S. Eliot Quotes and Quotations

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good. - T. S. Eliot | Acting and the Theatre Quotes

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible. - T. S. Eliot | Aging and Old Age Quotes

The young feel tired at the end of an action; The old at the beginning. - T. S. Eliot | Aging and Old Age Quotes

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish. - T. S. Eliot | Aging and Old Age Quotes

You have now learned to see That cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind. - T. S. Eliot | Animals Quotes

In my beginning is my end. - T. S. Eliot | Birth Quotes

What is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. - T. S. Eliot | Change and Transience Quotes

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. - T. S. Eliot | Civilization Quotes

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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian. - T. S. Eliot | Conviction and Belief Quotes

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. - T. S. Eliot | Education Quotes

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time. - T. S. Eliot | Education Quotes

I will show you fear in a handful of dust. - T. S. Eliot | Fear Quotes

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. - T. S. Eliot | Greatness Quotes

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence. - T. S. Eliot | History and Historians Quotes

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. - T. S. Eliot | Life Quotes

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks. - T. S. Eliot | Life Quotes

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both. - T. S. Eliot | Nature Quotes

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All cases are unique and very similar to others. - T. S. Eliot | Originality Quotes

Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree. - T. S. Eliot | Philosophy Quotes

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences. - T. S. Eliot | Poets and Poetry Quotes

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again. - T. S. Eliot | Poets and Poetry Quotes

No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. - T. S. Eliot | Poets and Poetry Quotes

The poet's mind is ... a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together. - T. S. Eliot | Poets and Poetry Quotes

Poetry is a mug's game. - T. S. Eliot | Poets and Poetry Quotes

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. - T. S. Eliot | Power Quotes

Human kind cannot bear very much reality. - T. S. Eliot | Reality Quotes

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The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution. - T. S. Eliot | Revolution and Reform Quotes

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with Spring rain. - T. S. Eliot | The Seasons Quotes

April is the crudest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. - T. S. Eliot | Wickedness and Cruelty Quotes

Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm - but the harm does not interest them. - T. S. Eliot | Wickedness and Cruelty Quotes

I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers. - T. S. Eliot | Writers and Writing Quotes

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. - T. S. Eliot | Writers and Writing Quotes

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. - T. S. Eliot | Happiness Quotes

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both. - T. S. Eliot | Acceptance Quotes

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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. - T. S. Eliot | One Day Quotes

What we call the beginning is often an end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. - T. S. Eliot | Difficult Days Quotes

What is actual is actual only for one time, and only for one place. - T. S. Eliot | Change Quotes

One starts an action simply because one must do something. - T. S. Eliot | Motivation Quotes

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T. S. Eliot | Risks Quotes

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? - T. S. Eliot | Courage Quotes

One starts an action simply because one must do something. - T. S. Eliot | Getting Going Quotes

Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. - T. S. Eliot | Success Quotes

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. - T. S. Eliot | Beauty Quotes

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. - T. S. Eliot | Birthdays and Age Quotes

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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes and Quotations

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt | Ability and Achievement Quotes

I want to see you shoot the way you shout. - Theodore Roosevelt | Action Quotes

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. - Theodore Roosevelt | Law and Lawyers Quotes

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt | Will and Determination Quotes

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. - Theodore Roosevelt | Wisdom Quotes

I am only an average man, but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. - Theodore Roosevelt | Work Quotes

Pray not for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs. - Theodore Roosevelt | Prayer Quotes

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character! - Theodore Roosevelt | Self-Acceptance Quotes

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt | One Day Quotes

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The worst of all fears is the fear of living. - Theodore Roosevelt | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks. - Theodore Roosevelt | Risks Quotes

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt | Getting Going Quotes

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. - Theodore Roosevelt | Success Quotes

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks. - Theodore Roosevelt | Success Quotes

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

We demand that big business give people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honesdy endeavors to do right, he shall himself be given a square deal. - Theodore Roosevelt | Business Quotes

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. - Theodore Roosevelt | Life Quotes

My hat's in the ring. The fight is one and I'm stripped to the buff. - Theodore Roosevelt | Politics Quotes

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I want to see you shoot the way you shout. - Theodore Roosevelt | Soldier Quotes

I feel like a Bull Moose. - Theodore Roosevelt | Strength Quotes

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. - Theodore Roosevelt | Wise Quotes

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other. - Theodore Roosevelt | Word Quotes

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Thomas Fuller Quotes and Quotations

Good is not good, where better is expected. - Thomas Fuller | Ability and Achievement Quotes

The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. - Thomas Fuller | Action Quotes

Old foxes want no tutors. - Thomas Fuller | Aging and Old Age Quotes

Anger is one of the sinners of the soul. - Thomas Fuller | Anger Quotes

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. - Thomas Fuller | Architects and Architecture Quotes

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods. - Thomas Fuller | Buying and Selling Quotes

We could be cowards, if we had courage enough. - Thomas Fuller | Courage and Bravery Quotes

A small demerit extinguishes a long service. - Thomas Fuller | Crime and Punishment Quotes

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime. - Thomas Fuller | Crime and Punishment Quotes

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The mob has many heads but no brains. - Thomas Fuller | Crowds and the Masses Quotes

Learning makes a man fit company for himself. - Thomas Fuller | Education Quotes

Today is yesterday's pupil. - Thomas Fuller | Experience Quotes

Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men. - Thomas Fuller | Fools and Foolishness Quotes

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. - Thomas Fuller | Friends and Friendship Quotes

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased. - Thomas Fuller | Goodness and Giving Quotes

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them. - Thomas Fuller | Gossip and Gossips Quotes

Great and good are seldom the same man. - Thomas Fuller | Greatness Quotes

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts. - Thomas Fuller | Hell and the Devil Quotes

He that resolves to deal with none but honest men, must leave off dealing. - Thomas Fuller | Honesty Quotes

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He is idle that might be better employed. - Thomas Fuller | Idleness Quotes

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most. - Thomas Fuller | Insults and Calumny Quotes

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial. - Thomas Fuller | Justice Quotes

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. - Thomas Fuller | Knowledge Quotes

Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid. - Thomas Fuller | Love Quotes

Sickness is felt, but health not at all. - Thomas Fuller | Medicine and Sickness Quotes

That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember. - Thomas Fuller | Memory Quotes

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money. - Thomas Fuller | Money Quotes

God makes, and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man. - Thomas Fuller | Money Quotes

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun. - Thomas Fuller | Optimism and Pessimism Quotes

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Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth. - Thomas Fuller | Passion and the Heart Quotes

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it. - Thomas Fuller | Personal Appearance Quotes

Poor men's reasons are not heard. - Thomas Fuller | Poverty Quotes

Pride, perceiving humility honourable, often borrows her cloak. - Thomas Fuller | Pride Quotes

Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind. - Thomas Fuller | Pride Quotes

A man surprised is half beaten. - Thomas Fuller | Quips and Comments Quotes

Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge. - Thomas Fuller | Quips and Comments Quotes

What a day may bring, a day may take away. - Thomas Fuller | Time Quotes

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee. - Thomas Fuller | Trust Quotes

Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetites. - Thomas Fuller | Wealth Quotes

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The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable. - Thomas Fuller | Wickedness and Cruelty Quotes

Nothing is easy to the unwilling. - Thomas Fuller | Will and Determination Quotes

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers. - Thomas Fuller | Will and Determination Quotes

Men never think their fortunes too great, nor their wit too little. - Thomas Fuller | Wit Quotes

Soft words are hard arguments. - Thomas Fuller | Words and Language Quotes

A good horse should be seldom spurred. - Thomas Fuller | Work Quotes

A good friend is my nearest relation. - Thomas Fuller | Friends and Family Quotes

They are rich who have true friends. - Thomas Fuller | Friends and Money Quotes

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise. - Thomas Fuller | Happiness Quotes

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise. - Thomas Fuller | Happiness Quotes

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Good is not good, where better is expected. - Thomas Fuller | Acceptance Quotes

I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend. - Thomas Fuller | Acceptance Quotes

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. - Thomas Fuller | Forgiveness Quotes

Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us. - Thomas Fuller | Forgiveness Quotes

There is no banquet but some dislike something in it. - Thomas Fuller | Forgiveness Quotes

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so, too. - Thomas Fuller | Forgiveness Quotes

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much. - Thomas Fuller | Forgiveness Quotes

He is rich that is satisfied. - Thomas Fuller | Forgiveness Quotes

Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. - Thomas Fuller | Other Side Quotes

Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest. - Thomas Fuller | Other Side Quotes

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Charity begins at home, but should not end there. - Thomas Fuller | Helping Other People Quotes

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault. - Thomas Fuller | Friendship Quotes

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. - Thomas Fuller | Friendship Quotes

Friendship that flames goes out in a flash. - Thomas Fuller | Friendship Quotes

Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad. - Thomas Fuller | Friendship Quotes

A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools. - Thomas Fuller | Friendship Quotes

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. - Thomas Fuller | Friendship Quotes

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. - Thomas Fuller | Faith and Unity Quotes

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. - Thomas Fuller | Prayer Quotes

None can pray well but he that lives well. - Thomas Fuller | Prayer Quotes

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Every tub must stand on its own bottom. - Thomas Fuller | Self-Reliance Quotes

The Golden Age was never the present Age. - Thomas Fuller | The Past Quotes

Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations, for sleep is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauce. ... Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head, which hath lain fallow all night, with some serious work. - Thomas Fuller | Mornings Quotes

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present. - Thomas Fuller | The Future Quotes

Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else. - Thomas Fuller | Positive Quotes

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise. - Thomas Fuller | Positive Quotes

The real difference between men is energy. - Thomas Fuller | Enthusiasm Quotes

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. - Thomas Fuller | Hope Quotes

Great hopes make great men. - Thomas Fuller | Hope Quotes

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Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion. - Thomas Fuller | Hope Quotes

Good is not good, where better is expected. - Thomas Fuller | Realistic Expectations Quotes

Prospect is often better than possession. - Thomas Fuller | Realistic Expectations Quotes

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. - Thomas Fuller | Goals Quotes

One may miss the mark by aiming too high, as too low. - Thomas Fuller | Goals Quotes

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so, too. - Thomas Fuller | Fear Quotes

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present. - Thomas Fuller | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

A good life fears not life, nor death. - Thomas Fuller | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

A coward's fear can make a coward valiant. - Thomas Fuller | Other Ways to Overcome Fear Quotes

A danger foreseen is half avoided. - Thomas Fuller | Other Ways to Overcome Fear Quotes

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Better hazard once than always be in fear. - Thomas Fuller | Other Ways to Overcome Fear Quotes

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. - Thomas Fuller | Risks Quotes

He that would have fruit must climb the tree. - Thomas Fuller | Risks Quotes

Better hazard once than always be in fear. - Thomas Fuller | Risks Quotes

Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains. - Thomas Fuller | Courage Quotes

He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung. - Thomas Fuller | Courage Quotes

He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass. - Thomas Fuller | Courage Quotes

We would be cowards, if we had courage enough. - Thomas Fuller | Courage Quotes

A coward's fear can make a coward valiant. - Thomas Fuller | Courage Quotes

The real difference between men is energy. - Thomas Fuller | Success Quotes

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He that would have fruit must climb the tree. - Thomas Fuller | Success Quotes

A wise man turns chance into good fortune. - Thomas Fuller | Recognize and Maximize Quotes

A good garden may have some weeds. - Thomas Fuller | Perfection Quotes

What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed. - Thomas Fuller | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

A good marksman may miss. - Thomas Fuller | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater. - Thomas Fuller | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

A stumble may prevent a fall. - Thomas Fuller | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is. - Thomas Fuller | Worthy Victories Quotes

A wise man turns chance into good fortune. - Thomas Fuller | Events Quotes

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. - Thomas Fuller | Lighten up Quotes

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Sudden acquaintance brings repentance. - Thomas Fuller | Acquaintance Quotes

It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth. - Thomas Fuller | Darkness Quotes

My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life. - Thomas Fuller | Daughters Quotes

What a day may bring a day may take away. - Thomas Fuller | Day Quotes

Be you never so high, the law is above you. - Thomas Fuller | Law Quotes

Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown. - Thomas Fuller | Lending Quotes

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage; and half shut afterward. - Thomas Fuller | Marriage Quotes

The image of God cut in ebony. - Thomas Fuller | Negroes Quotes

We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors. - Thomas Fuller | Neighbors Quotes

Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring. - Thomas Fuller | Nobility Quotes

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A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. - Thomas Fuller | Prejudice Quotes

In fair weather prepare for foul. - Thomas Fuller | Preparedness Quotes

A good life is the only religion. - Thomas Fuller | Religion Quotes

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell. - Thomas Fuller | Resignation Quotes

The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor. - Thomas Fuller | Riches Quotes

"They say so" is half a lie. - Thomas Fuller | Rumor Quotes

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil. - Thomas Fuller | Sin Quotes

It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today. - Thomas Fuller | Thrift Quotes

Change of weather is the discourse of fools. - Thomas Fuller | Weather Quotes

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He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. - Thomas Fuller | Wife Quotes

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Thomas Hardy Quotes and Quotations

Good, but not religious-good. - Thomas Hardy | Character and Personality Quotes

Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be, It exacts a full look at the Worst. - Thomas Hardy | Goals and Ambition Quotes

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. - Thomas Hardy | History and Historians Quotes

Aspects are within us, and who seems most kingly is king. - Thomas Hardy | Illusion Quotes

If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst. - Thomas Hardy | Life Quotes

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. - Thomas Hardy | Life Quotes

Love lives on propinquity, but dies on contact. - Thomas Hardy | Love Quotes

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. - Thomas Hardy | Patience Quotes

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone. - Thomas Hardy | Poets and Poetry Quotes

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. - Thomas Hardy | Silence Quotes

Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. - Thomas Hardy | Words and Language Quotes

There is a good deal too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened. - Thomas Hardy | Religion Quotes

Some folk want their luck buttered. - Thomas Hardy | Luck Quotes

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. - Thomas Hardy | Passion Quotes

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Thomas Jefferson Quotes and Quotations

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. - Thomas Jefferson | Censorship Quotes

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. - Thomas Jefferson | Government and Rule Quotes

Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered. - Thomas Jefferson | Government and Rule Quotes

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. - Thomas Jefferson | Government and Rule Quotes

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. - Thomas Jefferson | Newspapers and Journalism Quotes

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office, a rottenness begins in his conduct. - Thomas Jefferson | Politicians Quotes

I hold it, that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. - Thomas Jefferson | Revolution and Reform Quotes

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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. - Thomas Jefferson | Sport Quotes

Taste cannot be controlled by law. - Thomas Jefferson | Taste Quotes

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies. - Thomas Jefferson | Truth Quotes

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation and freedom in all just pursuits. - Thomas Jefferson | Happiness Quotes

Happiness is not being pained in body nor troubled in mind. - Thomas Jefferson | Happiness Quotes

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness. - Thomas Jefferson | Happiness Quotes

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness. - Thomas Jefferson | Happiness Quotes

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil, while fretting and fuming only increase your own torments. - Thomas Jefferson | Acceptance Quotes

Happiness is not being pained in body, or troubled in mind. - Thomas Jefferson | Forgiveness Quotes

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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. - Thomas Jefferson | Prayer Quotes

No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. - Thomas Jefferson | One Day Quotes

I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson | The Past Quotes

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson | The Future Quotes

I steer my bark with hope in my heart, leaving fear astern. - Thomas Jefferson | Hope Quotes

The hole and the patch should be commensurate. - Thomas Jefferson | Right Quotes

I steer my bark with hope in my heart, leaving fear astern. - Thomas Jefferson | Other Ways to Overcome Fear Quotes

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. - Thomas Jefferson | Worry Quotes

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson | Courage Quotes

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson | Luck Quotes

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When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil, while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments. - Thomas Jefferson | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. - Thomas Jefferson | Family Quotes

The sun�my almighty physician. - Thomas Jefferson | Nature Quotes

I succeed him; no one could replace him. - Thomas Jefferson | Business Quotes

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson | Success Quotes

Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper. - Thomas Jefferson | Advertising Quotes

All authority belongs to the people. - Thomas Jefferson | Authority Quotes

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. - Thomas Jefferson | Bank Quotes

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions. - Thomas Jefferson | Body Quotes

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I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. - Thomas Jefferson | Censorship Quotes

In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution. - Thomas Jefferson | Constitution Quotes

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order. - Thomas Jefferson | Despotism Quotes

The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public, and more trouble to me, than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be, Does he use ardent spirits? - Thomas Jefferson | Drinking Quotes

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. - Thomas Jefferson | Equality Quotes

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. - Thomas Jefferson | Family Quotes

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if He ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. - Thomas Jefferson | Farming Quotes

France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties. - Thomas Jefferson | France Quotes

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I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another. - Thomas Jefferson | Cowardice Quotes

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. - Thomas Jefferson | Government Quotes

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. - Thomas Jefferson | Government Quotes

Of all calamities this is the greatest. - Thomas Jefferson | Intemperance Quotes

The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes. - Thomas Jefferson | Justice Quotes

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state. - Thomas Jefferson | Land Quotes

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them. - Thomas Jefferson | Law Quotes

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. - Thomas Jefferson | Liberty Quotes

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail. - Thomas Jefferson | Majority Quotes

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I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man. - Thomas Jefferson | Morality Quotes

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. - Thomas Jefferson | Newspapers Quotes

If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation, none. - Thomas Jefferson | Office Quotes

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion. - Thomas Jefferson | Opinion Quotes

If I could not go to Heaven but with a party I would not go there at all. - Thomas Jefferson | Party Quotes

The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. - Thomas Jefferson | People Quotes

If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none. - Thomas Jefferson | Politics Quotes

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. - Thomas Jefferson | Power Quotes

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. - Thomas Jefferson | Presidency Quotes

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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. - Thomas Jefferson | Press Quotes

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. - Thomas Jefferson | Punishment Quotes

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. - Thomas Jefferson | Reason Quotes

The hole and the patch should be commensurate. - Thomas Jefferson | Reform Quotes

A republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible. - Thomas Jefferson | Republic Quotes

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. - Thomas Jefferson | Ridicule Quotes

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. - Thomas Jefferson | Rights Quotes

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. - Thomas Jefferson | Soldier Quotes

For God's sake, let us freely hear both sides! - Thomas Jefferson | Speech Quotes

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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations� entangling alliances with none. - Thomas Jefferson | Statesmanship Quotes

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. - Thomas Jefferson | Trust Quotes

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - Thomas Jefferson | Tyranny Quotes

War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer. - Thomas Jefferson | War Quotes

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey. - Thomas Jefferson | Wine and Spirits Quotes

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Victor Hugo Quotes and Quotations

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. - Victor Hugo | Aging and Old Age Quotes

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother. - Victor Hugo | Civilization Quotes

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. - Victor Hugo | Family and Ancestry Quotes

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo | Ideas Quotes

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. - Victor Hugo | Love Quotes

Sorrow is a fruit; God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it. - Victor Hugo | Sorrow Quotes

Everything bows to success, even grammar. - Victor Hugo | Success Quotes

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour. - Victor Hugo | Thinking and Thought Quotes

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. - Victor Hugo | Thinking and Thought Quotes

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Those who live are those who fight. - Victor Hugo | Will and Determination Quotes

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. - Victor Hugo | Happiness Quotes

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. - Victor Hugo | Helping Other People Quotes

Loving is half of believing. - Victor Hugo | Faith and Unity Quotes

Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray. - Victor Hugo | Prayer Quotes

He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. ... If the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign. - Victor Hugo | One Day Quotes

He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows that plan carries thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. - Victor Hugo | Mornings Quotes

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. - Victor Hugo | Hope Quotes

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign. - Victor Hugo | Goals Quotes

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Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. - Victor Hugo | Security Quotes

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it. - Victor Hugo | Courage Quotes

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. - Victor Hugo | Action Quotes

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job. - Victor Hugo | Adversity Quotes

The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved�loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. - Victor Hugo | True Love Quotes

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race. - Victor Hugo | Lighten up Quotes

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to lovel - Victor Hugo | Lighten up Quotes

Life is a flower of which love is the honey. - Victor Hugo | Lighten up Quotes

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. - Victor Hugo | Argument Quotes

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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom. - Victor Hugo | Caution Quotes

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled. - Victor Hugo | Charity Quotes

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education. - Victor Hugo | Common Sense Quotes

I had rather be hissed for a good verse than applauded for a bad one. - Victor Hugo | Criticism Quotes

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite. - Victor Hugo | Genius Quotes

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo | Ideas Quotes

The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple. - Victor Hugo | Immortality Quotes

Inspiration and genius�one and the same. - Victor Hugo | Inspiration Quotes

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies. - Victor Hugo | Nature Quotes

There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones. - Victor Hugo | Perfection Quotes

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Progress�the stride of God! - Victor Hugo | Progress Quotes

Proverty and wealth are comparative sins. - Victor Hugo | Sin Quotes

My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic. - Victor Hugo | Taste Quotes

Toleration is the best religion. - Victor Hugo | Toleration Quotes

It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty. - Victor Hugo | Women Quotes

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Voltaire Quotes and Quotations

The best is the enemy of the good. - Voltaire | Ability and Achievement Quotes

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. - Voltaire | Aging and Old Age Quotes

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. - Voltaire | Arguments and Quarrels Quotes

Ask a toad what is beauty? ... a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back. - Voltaire | Beauty Quotes

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything. - Voltaire | Bores and Boredom Quotes

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. - Voltaire | Creation and Creativity Quotes

Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment. - Voltaire | Crime and Punishment Quotes

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces. - Voltaire | England and the U.K. Quotes

The superfluous is very necessary. - Voltaire | Enjoyment and Pleasure Quotes

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous. - Voltaire | Fame and Celebrities Quotes

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere. - Voltaire | Fools and Foolishness Quotes

God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. - Voltaire | God Quotes

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. - Voltaire | God Quotes

If God made us in his image, we have certainly returned the compliment. - Voltaire | God Quotes

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. - Voltaire | Government and Rule Quotes

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. - Voltaire | Heredity Quotes

History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes. - Voltaire | History and Historians Quotes

We never live, but we are always in the expectation of living. - Voltaire | Life Quotes

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. - Voltaire | Money Quotes

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Men argue, nature acts. - Voltaire | Nature Quotes

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire | Opinion Quotes

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. - Voltaire | Optimism and Pessimism Quotes

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others and it becomes the property of all. - Voltaire | Originality Quotes

We offer up prayers to God only because we have made Him after our own image. We treat Him like a Pasha, or a Sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased. - Voltaire | Prayer Quotes

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is. - Voltaire | Proof and Certainty Quotes

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed. - Voltaire | Religion Quotes

I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one. - Voltaire | Ruin Quotes

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it. - Voltaire | Success Quotes

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Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts. - Voltaire | Thinking and Thought Quotes

There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times. - Voltaire | Truth Quotes

Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty. - Voltaire | Work Quotes

Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures. - Voltaire | Happiness Quotes

Better is the enemy of the good. - Voltaire | Acceptance Quotes

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. - Voltaire | Acceptance Quotes

The most beautiful of all emblems is that of God, whom Timaeus of Locris describes under the image of "A circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." - Voltaire | God Quotes

Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. - Voltaire | Faith and Unity Quotes

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked. - Voltaire | Prayer Quotes

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? - Voltaire | Role Models Quotes

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Better is the enemy of the good. - Voltaire | Realistic Expectations Quotes

Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures. - Voltaire | Goals Quotes

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment. - Voltaire | Fear Quotes

Fear could never make a virtue. - Voltaire | Other Ways to Overcome Fear Quotes

Doubt is not a pleasant state, but certainty is a ridiculous one. - Voltaire | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. - Voltaire | Getting Going Quotes

Luck is a word devoid of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. - Voltaire | Luck Quotes

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. - Voltaire | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. - Voltaire | Events Quotes

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire | Life Quotes

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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire | Health Quotes

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. - Voltaire | Ancestry Quotes

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. - Voltaire | Beginning Quotes

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. - Voltaire | Books Quotes

Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life. - Voltaire | Care Quotes

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero. - Voltaire | Censorship Quotes

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker. - Voltaire | Creation Quotes

My prayer to God is a very short one "Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous!" God has granted it. - Voltaire | Enemy Quotes

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent. - Voltaire | England Quotes

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? - Voltaire | Experience Quotes

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous. - Voltaire | Fame Quotes

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool. - Voltaire | Fools Quotes

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him. - Voltaire | Glory Quotes

The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. - Voltaire | Health Quotes

A good imitation is the most perfect originality. - Voltaire | Imitation Quotes

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing. - Voltaire | Medicine Quotes

Nature has always had more force than education. - Voltaire | Nature Quotes

When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation. - Voltaire | News Quotes

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. - Voltaire | Opportunity Quotes

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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy. - Voltaire | Philosophy Quotes

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. - Voltaire | Poetry Quotes

The infinitely little have pride infinitely great. - Voltaire | Pride Quotes

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing. - Voltaire | Punishment Quotes

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason. - Voltaire | Reason Quotes

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire | Speech Quotes

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition. - Voltaire | Superstition Quotes

The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything. - Voltaire | Talk Quotes

Tears are the silent language of grief. - Voltaire | Tears Quotes

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You (Pindar) who possessed the talent of speaking much without saying anything. - Voltaire | Word Quotes

Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds. - Voltaire | World Quotes

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W. H. Auden Quotes and Quotations

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. - W. H. Auden | Books and Reading Quotes

Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one. - W. H. Auden | Civilization Quotes

What the mass media offer is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. - W. H. Auden | Enjoyment and Pleasure Quotes

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. - W. H. Auden | Genius Quotes

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. - W. H. Auden | Goodness and Giving Quotes

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize. - W. H. Auden | Happiness Quotes

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind. - W. H. Auden | History and Historians Quotes

Almost all of our relationships begin, and most of them continue, as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. - W. H. Auden | Human Relations Quotes

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Any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance, however passionate. - W. H. Auden | Marriage Quotes

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.' - W. H. Auden | Maturity Quotes

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. - W. H. Auden | Observation Quotes

Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because, however successful he may be in overcoming them, he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every important choice. - W. H. Auden | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along. - W. H. Auden | Sorrow Quotes

When we do evil, We and our victims Are equally bewildered. - W. H. Auden | Wickedness and Cruelty Quotes

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it. - W. H. Auden | Writers and Writing Quotes

To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety. - W. H. Auden | Happiness Quotes

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The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself. - W. H. Auden | Faith and Unity Quotes

Choice of attention-to pay attention to this and ignore that-is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences. - W. H. Auden | Self-Reliance Quotes

Choice of attention ... is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. - W. H. Auden | Decisions Quotes

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try. - W. H. Auden | Getting Going Quotes

Choice of attention, to pay attention to this and ignore that, is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. - W. H. Auden | Concentration Quotes

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. - W. H. Auden | Life Quotes

Cathedrals, Luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone. - W. H. Auden | Church Quotes

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Walt Whitman Quotes and Quotations

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long, They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things. Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that liveth thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. - Walt Whitman | Animals Quotes

Camerado, this is no book. Who touches this, touches a man. - Walt Whitman | Books and Reading Quotes

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. - Walt Whitman | Censorship Quotes

It is native personality, and that alone, that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals, or in any distinguished collection, with aplomb -and not culture, or any intellect whatever. - Walt Whitman | Character and Personality Quotes

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. - Walt Whitman | Education Quotes

In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, and I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoever I go others will punctually come for ever and ever. - Walt Whitman | God Quotes

Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give, I give myself. - Walt Whitman | Goodness and Giving Quotes

To have great poets there must be great audiences too. - Walt Whitman | Poets and Poetry Quotes

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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. - Walt Whitman | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. - Walt Whitman | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary. - Walt Whitman | Success Quotes

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough. - Walt Whitman | Forgiveness Quotes

Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give, I give myself. - Walt Whitman | Helping Other People Quotes

In the faces of men and women I see God. - Walt Whitman | God Quotes

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content. - Walt Whitman | Self-Acceptance Quotes

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity. - Walt Whitman | Simplicity Quotes

Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes). - Walt Whitman | Creating Positive Change Quotes

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The future is no more uncertain than the present. - Walt Whitman | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes

Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary. - Walt Whitman | Success Quotes

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. - Walt Whitman | Nature Quotes

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred. - Walt Whitman | Body Quotes

Camerado, this is no book. Who touches this, touches a man. - Walt Whitman | Books Quotes

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. - Walt Whitman | Death Quotes

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night, I mourn'd�and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. - Walt Whitman | Flowers Quotes

Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. - Walt Whitman | Gift Quotes

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground. - Walt Whitman | Language Quotes

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The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. - Walt Whitman | Lincoln Quotes

Nothing endures but personal qualities. - Walt Whitman | Quality Quotes

I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass. - Walt Whitman | Soul Quotes

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William Blake Quotes and Quotations

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. - William Blake | Action Quotes

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. - William Blake | Anger Quotes

A robin redbreast in a cage Sets all heaven in a rage. - William Blake | Animals Quotes

Exuberance is beauty. - William Blake | Beauty Quotes

The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art. - William Blake | The Bible Quotes

Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night. - William Blake | Birth Quotes

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; My business is to create. - William Blake | Creation and Creativity Quotes

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius. - William Blake | Genius Quotes

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer. - William Blake | Goodness and Giving Quotes

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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. - William Blake | Knowledge Quotes

A truth that's told with bad intent - beats all the lies you can invent. - William Blake | Morality and Ethics Quotes

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer. For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars. - William Blake | Morality and Ethics Quotes

As a man is, so he sees. - William Blake | Observation Quotes

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. - William Blake | Observation Quotes

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. - William Blake | Order and Organization Quotes

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress. - William Blake | Prayer Quotes

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. - William Blake | Sorrow Quotes

One thought fills immensity. - William Blake | Thinking and Thought Quotes

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A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. - William Blake | Truth Quotes

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. - William Blake | Wisdom Quotes

Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. - William Blake | Happiness Quotes

Life delights in life. - William Blake | Happiness Quotes

It is right it should be so, Man was made for joy and woe; And when this we rightly know, Through the world we safely go. - William Blake | Acceptance Quotes

The cut worm forgives the plow. - William Blake | Forgiveness Quotes

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. - William Blake | Forgiveness Quotes

Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself. - William Blake | Helping Other People Quotes

The bird, a nest; the spider, a web; man, friendship. - William Blake | Friendship Quotes

No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings. - William Blake | Self-Reliance Quotes

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Exuberance is beauty. - William Blake | Enthusiasm Quotes

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. - William Blake | Hope Quotes

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. - William Blake | Creating Positive Change Quotes

He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence. - William Blake | Getting Going Quotes

I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily. - William Blake | Wealth Quotes

Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands. - William Blake | Work Quotes

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William Butler Yeats Quotes and Quotations

Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers. - William Butler Yeats | Character and Personality Quotes

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. - William Butler Yeats | Conviction and Belief Quotes

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. - William Butler Yeats | Drink, Drinking and Drinkers Quotes

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats | Education Quotes

Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. - William Butler Yeats | Goodness and Giving Quotes

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work. - William Butler Yeats | Intellect Quotes

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. - William Butler Yeats | Life Quotes

Wine comes in at the mouth and love comes in at the eye; that's all we shall know for truth before we grow old and die. - William Butler Yeats | Love Quotes

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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible. - William Butler Yeats | Morality and Ethics Quotes

All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. - William Butler Yeats | Opinion Quotes

Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry. - William Butler Yeats | Poets and Poetry Quotes

A statesman is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote; A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat; So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote. - William Butler Yeats | Politics Quotes

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult. - William Butler Yeats | Secrets and Secrecy Quotes

Joy is the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. - William Butler Yeats | Happiness Quotes

Florence Farr once said to me, "If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God." - William Butler Yeats | This Moment Quotes

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. - William Butler Yeats | Instincts Quotes

No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love. - William Butler Yeats | Family Quotes

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Joy is the will which labors, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. - William Butler Yeats | Lighten up Quotes

She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree. - William Butler Yeats | Youth Quotes

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William Cowper Quotes and Quotations

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger. - William Cowper | Aging and Old Age Quotes

A fool must now and then be right by chance. - William Cowper | Fools and Foolishness Quotes

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm. - William Cowper | God Quotes

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. - William Cowper | Happiness Quotes

Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose. - William Cowper | Happiness Quotes

Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. - William Cowper | Retirement Quotes

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home! - William Cowper | Travel and Travellers Quotes

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. - William Cowper | Happiness Quotes

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Happiness depends, as Nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. - William Cowper | Happiness Quotes

No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road. - William Cowper | Acceptance Quotes

Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees. - William Cowper | Prayer Quotes

The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow. - William Cowper | The Present Quotes

Beware of desp'rate steps; the darkest day lived till tomorrow will have pass'd away. - William Cowper | Mornings Quotes

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. - William Cowper | Goals Quotes

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger. - William Cowper | Security Quotes

Remorse begets reform. - William Cowper | Adversity Quotes

What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife When Friendship, love and peace combine To stamp the marriage bond divine? - William Cowper | Companionship Quotes

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God made the country, and man made the town. - William Cowper | City Quotes

The town is man's world, but this (country life) is of God. - William Cowper | Country Life Quotes

A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can. - William Cowper | Courtesy Quotes

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm. - William Cowper | Glory Quotes

Grief is itself a med'cine. - William Cowper | Grief Quotes

Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired. - William Cowper | Religion Quotes

A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none. - William Cowper | Scripture Quotes

I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,� "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper�Solitude is sweet. - William Cowper | Solitude Quotes

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour. - William Cowper | Variety Quotes

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Such stuff the world is made of. - William Cowper | World Quotes

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William James Quotes and Quotations

Be willing to have it so; acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. - William James | Adversity Quotes

Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all. - William James | Habit and Tradition Quotes

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. - William James | Genius Quotes

As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them. - William James | Goodness and Giving Quotes

An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another, but what there is is very important.' - William James | Homo Sapiens Quotes

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. - William James | Life Quotes

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being. - William James | Ownership and Possession Quotes

The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence. - William James | Philosophy Quotes

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Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all. - William James | Science and Technology Quotes

So long as the anti-militarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of hate, so long they fail to realize the full equities of the situation. - William James | War Quotes

So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way. - William James | War Quotes

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James | Wisdom Quotes

Footnotes, the little dogs yapping at the heels of the text. - William James | Writers and Writing Quotes

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. - William James | Happiness Quotes

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune. - William James | Acceptance Quotes

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia. - William James | Friendship Quotes

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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours. - William James | Friendship Quotes

Most men's friendships are too inarticulate. - William James | Friendship Quotes

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on their failures by the opinion of the world. - William James | God Quotes

Faith is one of the forces by which men live; the total absence of it means collapse. - William James | Faith and Unity Quotes

The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves. - William James | Prayer Quotes

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. - William James | Self-Acceptance Quotes

Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement. - William James | Boring Days Quotes

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact. - William James | Positive Quotes

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of our venture. - William James | Positive Quotes

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The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. - William James | Positive Quotes

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. - William James | Positive Quotes

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness. - William James | Role Models Quotes

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. - William James | Creating Positive Change Quotes

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. - William James | Decisions Quotes

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. - William James | Decisions Quotes

Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. - William James | Instincts Quotes

Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift. - William James | Instincts Quotes

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them. - William James | Instincts Quotes

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The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse. - William James | Instincts Quotes

Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it. - William James | Right Quotes

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. - William James | Goals Quotes

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. - William James | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise. - William James | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

It is only by risking ... that we live at all. - William James | Risks Quotes

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved. - William James | Getting Going Quotes

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. - William James | Getting Going Quotes

The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will. - William James | Getting Going Quotes

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Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. - William James | Success Quotes

The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease. - William James | Success Quotes

Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances. - William James | Adversity Quotes

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. - William James | Events Quotes

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. - William James | Peace Quotes

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. - William James | Peace Quotes

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation. - William James | Ideas Quotes

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature. - William James | Property Quotes

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature. - William James | Property Quotes

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William Shakespeare Quotes and Quotations

A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. - William Shakespeare | Acting and the Theatre Quotes

Why, then the world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open. - William Shakespeare | Action Quotes

Action is eloquence. - William Shakespeare | Action Quotes

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest. - William Shakespeare | Advice Quotes

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? - William Shakespeare | Aging and Old Age Quotes

Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. - William Shakespeare | Aging and Old Age Quotes

To business that we love we rise betime, And go to it with delight. - William Shakespeare | Capitalism Quotes

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. - William Shakespeare | Chance and Fortune Quotes

His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up - William Shakespeare | Character and Personality Quotes

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What is the city but the people? - William Shakespeare | The City and the Country Quotes

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe. - William Shakespeare | Conscience Quotes

Conscience does make cowards of us all. - William Shakespeare | Conscience Quotes

He that dies pays all debts. - William Shakespeare | Death and Dying Quotes

I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death. - William Shakespeare | Death and Dying Quotes

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired. - William Shakespeare | Death and Dying Quotes

Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it. - William Shakespeare | Death and Dying Quotes

No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. - William Shakespeare | Death and Dying Quotes

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns. - William Shakespeare | Death and Dying Quotes

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts. - William Shakespeare | Environment Quotes

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I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. - William Shakespeare | Fame and Celebrities Quotes

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. - William Shakespeare | Fashion Quotes

That that is is. - William Shakespeare | Fate and Destiny Quotes

If you can look into the seeds of time and say, which grain will grow, and which will not, speak then to me. - William Shakespeare | The Future Quotes

I do desire we may be better strangers. - William Shakespeare | Hatred Quotes

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. - William Shakespeare | Homo Sapiens Quotes

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. - William Shakespeare | Homo Sapiens Quotes

Men must endure their going hence, even as their coming hither; ripeness is all. - William Shakespeare | Homo Sapiens Quotes

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his. - William Shakespeare | Honesty Quotes

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Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honour? A word. - William Shakespeare | Honour Quotes

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. - William Shakespeare | Humour and Humorists Quotes

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. - William Shakespeare | Illusion Quotes

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. - William Shakespeare | Insults and Calumny Quotes

Such as we are made of, such we be. - William Shakespeare | Life Quotes

One man in his time plays many parts. - William Shakespeare | Life Quotes

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. - William Shakespeare | Love Quotes

Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight 'til it be morrow. - William Shakespeare | Meetings and Partings Quotes

God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another. - William Shakespeare | Men and Women Quotes

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Neither a borrower nor a lender be for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. - William Shakespeare | Money Quotes

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? - William Shakespeare | Passion and the Heart Quotes

I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient. - William Shakespeare | Patience Quotes

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. - William Shakespeare | Philosophy Quotes

For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently. - William Shakespeare | Philosophy Quotes

A politician . . . one that would circumvent God. - William Shakespeare | Politicians Quotes

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. - William Shakespeare | Power Quotes

Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise. - William Shakespeare | Proof and Certainty Quotes

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York. - William Shakespeare | The Seasons Quotes

Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. - William Shakespeare | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

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Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. - William Shakespeare | Sleep Quotes

Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard. - William Shakespeare | Weariness Quotes

For some must watch, while some must sleep; thus runs the world away. - William Shakespeare | Weariness Quotes

What's gone and what's past help should be past grief. - William Shakespeare | Sorrow Quotes

When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, But in battalions! - William Shakespeare | Sorrow Quotes

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. - William Shakespeare | Speakers and Speeches Quotes

When I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content. - William Shakespeare | Travel and Travellers Quotes

There's a small choice in rotten apples. - William Shakespeare | Vice Quotes

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me; Shall be my brother. - William Shakespeare | War Quotes

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I must be cruel Only to be kind. - William Shakespeare | Wickedness and Cruelty Quotes

Brevity is the soul of wit. - William Shakespeare | Wit Quotes

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety; other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies. - William Shakespeare | Women Quotes

If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare | Work Quotes

Things past redress are now with me past care. - William Shakespeare | Acceptance Quotes

What cannot be avoided, t'were childish weakness to lament or fear. - William Shakespeare | Acceptance Quotes

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. - William Shakespeare | Forgiveness Quotes

Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou striv'est to get; and what thou hast, forget'est. - William Shakespeare | Forgiveness Quotes

He is well paid that is well satisfied. - William Shakespeare | Forgiveness Quotes

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. - William Shakespeare | Forgiveness Quotes

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Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. - William Shakespeare | Forgiveness Quotes

My crown is called content; a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy. - William Shakespeare | Other Side Quotes

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after. - William Shakespeare | Helping Other People Quotes

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities. - William Shakespeare | Friendship Quotes

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. - William Shakespeare | Friendship Quotes

Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer. - William Shakespeare | Prayer Quotes

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare | Prayer Quotes

We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy. - William Shakespeare | Prayer Quotes

We, ignorant of ourselves, beg often our own harms, which the wise powers deny us for our good. - William Shakespeare | Prayer Quotes

We cannot all be masters. - William Shakespeare | Self-Acceptance Quotes

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting. - William Shakespeare | Self-Confidence Quotes

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. - William Shakespeare | Self-Confidence Quotes

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie. - William Shakespeare | Self-Reliance Quotes

Men at some time are masters of their fates. - William Shakespeare | Self-Reliance Quotes

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. - William Shakespeare | Self-Reliance Quotes

Make use of time, let not advantage slip. - William Shakespeare | One Day Quotes

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. - William Shakespeare | One Day Quotes

The clock upbraids me with the waste of time. - William Shakespeare | One Day Quotes

Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day. - William Shakespeare | One Day Quotes

Time is the king of men. - William Shakespeare | One Day Quotes

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Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear. - William Shakespeare | The Past Quotes

What's past is prologue. - William Shakespeare | The Past Quotes

Past, and to come, seems best; things present, worst. - William Shakespeare | The Present Quotes

Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd slave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. - William Shakespeare | Evenings Quotes

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. - William Shakespeare | The Future Quotes

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. - William Shakespeare | Boring Days Quotes

This, too, shall pass. - William Shakespeare | Difficult Days Quotes

Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day. - William Shakespeare | Difficult Days Quotes

How poor are they that have not patience? What wound did ever heal but by degrees? - William Shakespeare | Difficult Days Quotes

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Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. - William Shakespeare | Difficult Days Quotes

God grant us patience! - William Shakespeare | Difficult Days Quotes

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. - William Shakespeare | Positive Quotes

The miserable have no medicine but hope. - William Shakespeare | Hope Quotes

True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes Gods, and meaner creatures kings. - William Shakespeare | Hope Quotes

This above all: to thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare | Right Quotes

We cannot all be masters. - William Shakespeare | Realistic Expectations Quotes

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. - William Shakespeare | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

Things done well and with care exempt themselves from fear. - William Shakespeare | Success and Happiness Quotes

The worst is not so long as we can say, "This is the worst." - William Shakespeare | Worry Quotes

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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt. - William Shakespeare | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. - William Shakespeare | Courage Quotes

Courage mounteth with occasion. - William Shakespeare | Courage Quotes

But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail. - William Shakespeare | Courage Quotes

Action is eloquence. - William Shakespeare | Getting Going Quotes

Men at some time are masters of their fates. - William Shakespeare | Success Quotes

Much rain wears the marble. - William Shakespeare | Time Quotes

Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. - William Shakespeare | Time Quotes

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. - William Shakespeare | Time Quotes

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. - William Shakespeare | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. - William Shakespeare | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

Sweet are the uses of adversity. - William Shakespeare | Worthy Victories Quotes

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. - William Shakespeare | Events Quotes

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet. - William Shakespeare | Beginnings Quotes

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting. - William Shakespeare | Introspection Quotes

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound. - William Shakespeare | Life Quotes

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. - William Shakespeare | True Love Quotes

The course of true love never did run smooth. - William Shakespeare | True Love Quotes

I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old. - William Shakespeare | True Love Quotes

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A light heart lives long. - William Shakespeare | Lighten up Quotes

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. - William Shakespeare | Lighten up Quotes

The play's the thing. - William Shakespeare | Acting Quotes

What's done can't be undone. - William Shakespeare | Action Quotes

Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. - William Shakespeare | Adversity Quotes

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. - William Shakespeare | Age Quotes

An old man is twice a child. - William Shakespeare | Age Quotes

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. - William Shakespeare | Ambition Quotes

Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. - William Shakespeare | Borrowing Quotes

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Brevity is the soul of wit. - William Shakespeare | Brevity Quotes

God befriend us, as our cause is just! - William Shakespeare | Cause Quotes

It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare | Childhood Quotes

There's small choice in rotten apples. - William Shakespeare | Choice Quotes

The people are the city. - William Shakespeare | City Quotes

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man. - William Shakespeare | Clothes Quotes

The soul of this man is his clothes. - William Shakespeare | Clothes Quotes

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. - William Shakespeare | Conscience Quotes

I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm. - William Shakespeare | Contentment Quotes

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He is well paid that is well satisfied. - William Shakespeare | Contentment Quotes

I must be cruel, only to be kind. - William Shakespeare | Cruelty Quotes

I am dying, Egypt, dying. - William Shakespeare | Death Quotes

To die:�to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. - William Shakespeare | Death Quotes

Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it. - William Shakespeare | Death Quotes

Death lies on her, like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. - William Shakespeare | Death Quotes

He that dies pays all debts. - William Shakespeare | Debt Quotes

There is a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. - William Shakespeare | Destiny Quotes

He will give the devil his due. - William Shakespeare | Devil Quotes

The prince of darkness is a gentleman. - William Shakespeare | Devil Quotes

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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. - William Shakespeare | Devil Quotes

Now is the Winter of our discontent. - William Shakespeare | Discontent Quotes

Let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action. - William Shakespeare | Discration Quotes

The better part of valour is discretion. - William Shakespeare | Discration Quotes

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? - William Shakespeare | Doubt Quotes

Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt. - William Shakespeare | Doubt Quotes

We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. - William Shakespeare | Dreams Quotes

He hath eaten me out of house and home. - William Shakespeare | Eating Quotes

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest. - William Shakespeare | Economy Quotes

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The royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demiparadise, This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea. - William Shakespeare | England Quotes

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. - William Shakespeare | Evil Quotes

And oftentimes, excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse,� As patches, set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patched. - William Shakespeare | Excuse Quotes

A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. - William Shakespeare | Face Quotes

God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another. - William Shakespeare | Face Quotes

Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night. - William Shakespeare | Fairies Quotes

Sweets to the sweet; farewell! - William Shakespeare | Farewell Quotes

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. - William Shakespeare | Fashion Quotes

It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare | Father Quotes

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O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! - William Shakespeare | Flattery Quotes

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare | Fools Quotes

A fool's bolt is soon shot. - William Shakespeare | Fools Quotes

Lord, what fools these mortals be! - William Shakespeare | Fools Quotes

O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle. - William Shakespeare | Fortune Quotes

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. - William Shakespeare | Fortune Quotes

Frailty, thy name is woman! - William Shakespeare | Frailty Quotes

I am wealthy in my friends. - William Shakespeare | Friends Quotes

The ripest fruit first falls. - William Shakespeare | Fruit Quotes

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. - William Shakespeare | Gift Quotes

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Foul whisperings are abroad. - William Shakespeare | Gossip Quotes

He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural. - William Shakespeare | Grace Quotes

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare | Greatness Quotes

Every one can master a grief but he that has it. - William Shakespeare | Grief Quotes

What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief. - William Shakespeare | Grief Quotes

Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone. - William Shakespeare | Guest Quotes

How use doth breed a habit in a man! - William Shakespeare | Habit Quotes

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. - William Shakespeare | Hearing Quotes

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at; I am not what I am. - William Shakespeare | Heart Quotes

The cunning livery of hell. - William Shakespeare | Hell Quotes

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Help me, Cassius, or I sink! - William Shakespeare | Help Quotes

Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. - William Shakespeare | Honesty Quotes

For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men. - William Shakespeare | Honor Quotes

A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! - William Shakespeare | Horses Quotes

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. - William Shakespeare | Hunger Quotes

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. - William Shakespeare | Husbands Quotes

This was the most unkindest cut of all; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitor's arm, Quite vanquish'd him; then burst his mighty heart. - William Shakespeare | Ingratitude Quotes

That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true 'tis pity; And pity 'tis 'tis true. - William Shakespeare | Insanity Quotes

Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. - William Shakespeare | Insanity Quotes

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleas-ance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts! - William Shakespeare | Intemperance Quotes

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Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. - William Shakespeare | Jesting Quotes

Jesters do often prove prophets. - William Shakespeare | Jesting Quotes

I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? - William Shakespeare | Jew Quotes

I wish you all the joy that you can wish. - William Shakespeare | Joy Quotes

Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy. - William Shakespeare | Joy Quotes

A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! O wise young judge, how I do honor thee! - William Shakespeare | Judge Quotes

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves. - William Shakespeare | Judge Quotes

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. - William Shakespeare | Judgment Quotes

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. - William Shakespeare | Judgment Quotes

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O judgment! thou are fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason! - William Shakespeare | Judgment Quotes

Are you good men and true? - William Shakespeare | Jury Quotes

The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try. - William Shakespeare | Jury Quotes

This bond is forfeit; And lawfully by this the Jew may claim A pound of flesh. - William Shakespeare | Justice Quotes

Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. - William Shakespeare | Justice Quotes

At little more than kin, and less than kind. - William Shakespeare | Kindness Quotes

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness. - William Shakespeare | Kindness Quotes

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. - William Shakespeare | Knowledge Quotes

And seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. - William Shakespeare | Knowledge Quotes

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me. - William Shakespeare | Language Quotes

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The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. - William Shakespeare | Law Quotes

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. - William Shakespeare | Lawyer Quotes

What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. - William Shakespeare | Liberality Quotes

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow. - William Shakespeare | Life Quotes

I shall not look upon his like again. - William Shakespeare | Like Quotes

A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing. - William Shakespeare | Lion Quotes

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them�but not for love. - William Shakespeare | Love Quotes

Ay me! for aught that I ever could read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. - William Shakespeare | Love Quotes

Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die. Take him, and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun. - William Shakespeare | Love Quotes

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. - William Shakespeare | Love Quotes

What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And, yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me: no, nor woman neidier, though by your smiling, you seem to say so. - William Shakespeare | Man Quotes

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. - William Shakespeare | Man Quotes

His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, This was a man! - William Shakespeare | Man Quotes

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed; maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. - William Shakespeare | Marriage Quotes

Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. - William Shakespeare | Mercy Quotes

The dreadful dead of dark midnight. - William Shakespeare | Midnight Quotes

Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. - William Shakespeare | Mind Quotes

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Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. - William Shakespeare | Misery Quotes

The worst is not sSo long as we can say "This is the worst." - William Shakespeare | Misfortune Quotes

As full of spirit as the month of May. - William Shakespeare | Months Quotes

The ides of March are come. - William Shakespeare | Months Quotes

The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night, Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light. - William Shakespeare | Morning Quotes

Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange and unnatural. - William Shakespeare | Murder Quotes

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. - William Shakespeare | Murder Quotes

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is no moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. - William Shakespeare | Music Quotes

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. - William Shakespeare | Name Quotes

But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. - William Shakespeare | Name Quotes

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What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. - William Shakespeare | Name Quotes

To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature. - William Shakespeare | Nature Quotes

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. - William Shakespeare | Nature Quotes

A plague o' both your houses. - William Shakespeare | Neutrality Quotes

There's villainous news abroad. - William Shakespeare | News Quotes

Making night hideous. - William Shakespeare | Night Quotes

This was the noblest Roman of them all. - William Shakespeare | Nobility Quotes

Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth, But the plain single vow that is vow'd true. - William Shakespeare | Oath Quotes

I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both. - William Shakespeare | Oath Quotes

Let them obey that know not how to rule. - William Shakespeare | Obedience Quotes

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The insolence of office. - William Shakespeare | Office Quotes

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. - William Shakespeare | Opportunity Quotes

The world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. - William Shakespeare | Oyster Quotes

Good-night, good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good-night till it be morrow. - William Shakespeare | Parting Quotes

Give me that man That is not passion's slave. - William Shakespeare | Passion Quotes

And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? - William Shakespeare | Patience Quotes

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? - William Shakespeare | Patience Quotes

Many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. - William Shakespeare | Perseverance Quotes

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. - William Shakespeare | Philosophy Quotes

There was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently. - William Shakespeare | Philosophy Quotes

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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. - William Shakespeare | Politics Quotes

I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient. - William Shakespeare | Poverty Quotes

Sermons in stones and good in every thing. - William Shakespeare | Preaching Quotes

He that doth the ravens feed. Yea, providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age! - William Shakespeare | Providence Quotes

He that doth the ravens feed. Yea, providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age! - William Shakespeare | Providence Quotes

There is a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. - William Shakespeare | Providence Quotes

Every why hath a wherefore. - William Shakespeare | Reason Quotes

I have no other but a woman's reason. I think him so because I think him so. - William Shakespeare | Reason Quotes

The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. - William Shakespeare | Reputation Quotes

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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. - William Shakespeare | Royalty Quotes

Ay, every inch a king. - William Shakespeare | Royalty Quotes

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. - William Shakespeare | Self-Knowledge Quotes

I to myself am dearer than a friend. - William Shakespeare | Self-Love Quotes

My heart is ever at your service. - William Shakespeare | Service Quotes

O shame! Where is they blush? - William Shakespeare | Shame Quotes

Ships are but boards, sailors but men. - William Shakespeare | Ships Quotes

The rest is silence. - William Shakespeare | Silence Quotes

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. - William Shakespeare | Silence Quotes

I am a man More sinn'd against than sinning. - William Shakespeare | Sin Quotes

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I am disgrac'd, impeach'd and baffled here,� Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear. - William Shakespeare | Slander Quotes

To sleep! perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. - William Shakespeare | Sleep Quotes

O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse. - William Shakespeare | Sleep Quotes

More in sorrow than in anger. - William Shakespeare | Sorrow Quotes

The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. - William Shakespeare | Sound Quotes

If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare | Sport Quotes

These blessed candles of the night. - William Shakespeare | Star Quotes

And thereby hangs a tale. - William Shakespeare | Story-Telling Quotes

To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first. - William Shakespeare | Success Quotes

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. - William Shakespeare | Suspicion Quotes

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Sweets to the sweet. - William Shakespeare | Swans Quotes

I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver. - William Shakespeare | Tale Quotes

Talkers are no good doers. - William Shakespeare | Talk Quotes

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. - William Shakespeare | Tears Quotes

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks. - William Shakespeare | Thankfulness Quotes

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child. - William Shakespeare | Thankfulness Quotes

A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another! - William Shakespeare | Thieving Quotes

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. - William Shakespeare | Thought Quotes

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. - William Shakespeare | Thought Quotes

There's a time for all things. - William Shakespeare | Time Quotes

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The time is out of joint. - William Shakespeare | Time Quotes

O, call back yesterday, bid time return. - William Shakespeare | Time Quotes

Make use of time, let not advantage slip. - William Shakespeare | Time Quotes

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing. - William Shakespeare | Tomorrow Quotes

Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!) - William Shakespeare | Treachery Quotes

To take arms against a sea of troubles. - William Shakespeare | Trouble Quotes

'Tis true, 'tis pity; And pity 'tis 'tis true. - William Shakespeare | Trust Quotes

My man's as true as steel. - William Shakespeare | Trust Quotes

'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. - William Shakespeare | Tyranny Quotes

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. - William Shakespeare | Variety Quotes

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Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman. - William Shakespeare | Voice Quotes

O war! thou son of Hell! - William Shakespeare | War Quotes

Blow, wind, and crack your cheeks. Rage! Blow! - William Shakespeare | Wind Quotes

Thy wish was father to that thought. - William Shakespeare | Wish Quotes

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation. - William Shakespeare | Wit Quotes

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. - William Shakespeare | Women Quotes

Fraily, thy name is woman! - William Shakespeare | Women Quotes

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore; To one thing constant never. - William Shakespeare | Wooing Quotes

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. - William Shakespeare | Wooing Quotes

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She's beautiful and therefore to be woo'd: She is a woman, therefore to be won. - William Shakespeare | Wooing Quotes

O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo: but else, not for the world. - William Shakespeare | Wooing Quotes

My word fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare | Word Quotes

But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. - William Shakespeare | Word Quotes

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical. - William Shakespeare | Word Quotes

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. - William Shakespeare | World Quotes

Why, then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. - William Shakespeare | World Quotes

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee. - William Shakespeare | Youth Quotes

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William Wordsworth Quotes and Quotations

That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. - William Wordsworth | Goodness and Giving Quotes

The child is father to the man. - William Wordsworth | Heredity Quotes

To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man. - William Wordsworth | Homo Sapiens Quotes

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. - William Wordsworth | Nature Quotes

A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows. - William Wordsworth | Optimism and Pessimism Quotes

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. - William Wordsworth | Writers and Writing Quotes

Faith is a passionate intuition. - William Wordsworth | Faith and Unity Quotes

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together-humble dependence and manly independence; humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self. - William Wordsworth | Self-Reliance Quotes

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Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm. - William Wordsworth | Other Ways to Overcome Fear Quotes

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together-humble dependence and manly independence: humble dependence on God, and manly reliance on self. - William Wordsworth | Action Quotes

That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. - William Wordsworth | Faith Quotes

Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher. - William Wordsworth | Nature Quotes

My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky. - William Wordsworth | Nature Quotes

The child is father of the man. - William Wordsworth | Childhood Quotes

The child is father of the man. - William Wordsworth | Father Quotes

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. - William Wordsworth | Cowardice Quotes

Nature is a volume of which God is the author. - William Wordsworth | Nature Quotes

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She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. - William Wordsworth | Women Quotes

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Winston Churchill Quotes and Quotations

I am easily satisfied with the very best. - Winston Churchill | Ability and Achievement Quotes

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. - Winston Churchill | Architects and Architecture Quotes

That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world. - Winston Churchill | Canada and Canadians Quotes

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. - Winston Churchill | Courage and Bravery Quotes

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. - Winston Churchill | Democracy Quotes

The English never draw a line without blurring it. - Winston Churchill | England and the U.K. Quotes

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. - Winston Churchill | Goals and Ambition Quotes

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. - Winston Churchill | Government and Rule Quotes

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We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm. - Winston Churchill | Greatness Quotes

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. - Winston Churchill | History and Historians Quotes

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill | Hypocrisy Quotes

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. - Winston Churchill | Justice Quotes

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. - Winston Churchill | Leaders and Leadership Quotes

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. - Winston Churchill | Leaders and Leadership Quotes

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed. - Winston Churchill | Life Quotes

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. - Winston Churchill | Minorities Quotes

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. - Winston Churchill | Order and Organization Quotes

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I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. - Winston Churchill | Painters and Painting Quotes

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill | Politics Quotes

India is a geographical term. It is no more a United Nation than the Equator. - Winston Churchill | Quips and Comments Quotes

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Winston Churchill | Quips and Comments Quotes

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. - Winston Churchill | Solitude Quotes

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down. - Winston Churchill | Speakers and Speeches Quotes

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack! - Winston Churchill | Speakers and Speeches Quotes

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. - Winston Churchill | Success Quotes

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. - Winston Churchill | Temptation Quotes

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There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. - Winston Churchill | Virtue Quotes

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived. - Winston Churchill | War Quotes

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: "This was their finest hour." - Winston Churchill | War Quotes

We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. - Winston Churchill | War Quotes

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. - Winston Churchill | War Quotes

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it. - Winston Churchill | War Quotes

In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. - Winston Churchill | Will and Determination Quotes

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"? - Winston Churchill | Words and Language Quotes

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable. - Winston Churchill | Acceptance Quotes

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If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible. - Winston Churchill | Acceptance Quotes

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope. - Winston Churchill | Simplicity Quotes

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it! - Winston Churchill | One Day Quotes

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future. - Winston Churchill | The Present Quotes

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. - Winston Churchill | The Future Quotes

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill | Enthusiasm Quotes

We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic. - Winston Churchill | Creating Positive Change Quotes

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill | Creating Positive Change Quotes

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. - Winston Churchill | Realistic Expectations Quotes

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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! - Winston Churchill | Success and Happiness Quotes

I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened. - Winston Churchill | Worry Quotes

Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others. - Winston Churchill | Courage Quotes

Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning. - Winston Churchill | Courage Quotes

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill | Courage Quotes

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. - Winston Churchill | Courage Quotes

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill | Success Quotes

It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. - Winston Churchill | Success Quotes

Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential. - Winston Churchill | Success Quotes

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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. - Winston Churchill | Success Quotes

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival. - Winston Churchill | Success Quotes

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. - Winston Churchill | Commitment and Belief Quotes

The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis." - Winston Churchill | Perfection Quotes

Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential. - Winston Churchill | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never.... In nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense! - Winston Churchill | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the halls. We shall never surrender. - Winston Churchill | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl�no superior alternative has yet been found. - Winston Churchill | Family Quotes

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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. - Winston Churchill | Companionship Quotes

Most people hate the taste of beer to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome. - Winston Churchill | Eat, Drink, and Be Merry Quotes

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about. - Winston Churchill | Insults Quotes

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Winston Churchill | Life and Death Quotes

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. - Winston Churchill | England Quotes

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so -bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour." - Winston Churchill | England Quotes

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. - Winston Churchill | England Quotes

Terminological inexactitude - Winston Churchill | Lying Quotes

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Woodrow Wilson Quotes and Quotations

The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds. - Woodrow Wilson | Action Quotes

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. - Woodrow Wilson | Adversity Quotes

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. - Woodrow Wilson | Character and Personality Quotes

When Andrew Jackson died someone asked a friend if he thought Old Hickory would go to heaven. 'He will if he wants to,' was the reply. On his death bed Disraeli declined a visit from Queen Victoria. 'No, it is better not', he said, 'she would only ask me to take a message to Albert.' I am a broken machine. I am ready to go. - Woodrow Wilson | Death and Dying Quotes

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality. - Woodrow Wilson | Friends and Friendship Quotes

A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. - Woodrow Wilson | Government and Rule Quotes

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States. - Woodrow Wilson | Government and Rule Quotes

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage. - Woodrow Wilson | Heredity Quotes

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I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow. - Woodrow Wilson | Intelligence Quotes

When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him. - Woodrow Wilson | Leaders and Leadership Quotes

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no domination. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely give. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and freedom of nations can make them. - Woodrow Wilson | Liberty and Human Rights Quotes

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now. - Woodrow Wilson | Politics Quotes

I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles. - Woodrow Wilson | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts - for democracy. - Woodrow Wilson | War Quotes

No task, rightly done is truly private. It is part of the world's work. - Woodrow Wilson | Work Quotes

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life. - Woodrow Wilson | Helping Other People Quotes

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. - Woodrow Wilson | Friendship Quotes

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality. - Woodrow Wilson | Friendship Quotes

All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for. - Woodrow Wilson | Difficult Days Quotes

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking. - Woodrow Wilson | Creating Positive Change Quotes

If you want to make enemies, try to change something. - Woodrow Wilson | Creating Positive Change Quotes

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. - Woodrow Wilson | Family Quotes

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. - Woodrow Wilson | America Quotes

The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile. - Woodrow Wilson | Business Quotes

The world must be made safe for democracy. - Woodrow Wilson | Democracy Quotes

I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being. - Woodrow Wilson | Democracy Quotes

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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. - Woodrow Wilson | Judgment Quotes

1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, "A free field and no favor." - Woodrow Wilson | Liberty Quotes

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. - Woodrow Wilson | Sneer Quotes

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Woody Allen Quotes and Quotations

Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, "Be fruitful, and multiply." But not in those words. - Woody Allen | Arguments and Quarrels Quotes

Showing up is eighty percent of life. - Woody Allen | Courage and Bravery Quotes

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying. - Woody Allen | Death and Dying Quotes

I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. - Woody Allen | Death and Dying Quotes

How to make God laugh. Tell him your future plans. - Woody Allen | God Quotes

The worst that you can say about him (God) is that basically he's an underachiever. - Woody Allen | God Quotes

I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year, then I'm going to Lourdes. - Woody Allen | Psychiatry Quotes

Those modern analysts, they charge so much! In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables. - Woody Allen | Psychiatry Quotes

Is sex dirty? Only if it is done right. - Woody Allen | Sex Quotes

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The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have. - Woody Allen | Forgiveness Quotes

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something. - Woody Allen | Other Side Quotes

Showing up is 80 percent of life. - Woody Allen | One Day Quotes

Eighty percent of success is showing up. - Woody Allen | Getting Going Quotes

If you're not failing, you're not trying anything. - Woody Allen | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox. - Woody Allen | Beginnings Quotes

I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it. - Woody Allen | Companionship Quotes

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it. - Woody Allen | Passion Quotes

I don't believe in God. Just try getting a plumber on the weekend. - Woody Allen | Spirituality Quotes

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I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me. - Woody Allen | Spirituality Quotes

You can live to be a hundred, if you give up all the things that make you want to live to a hundred. - Woody Allen | Birthdays and Age Quotes

I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her. - Woody Allen | Birthdays and Age Quotes

I'm not the heroic type, really. I was beaten up by Quakers. - Woody Allen | Character Quotes

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him. - Woody Allen | Cities and Travel Quotes

The best thing to do is to behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen and under, try not to go bald. - Woody Allen | Family Quotes

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying. - Woody Allen | Life and Death Quotes

Ninety percent of living is just showing up. - Woody Allen | Life and Death Quotes

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen | Life and Death Quotes

I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. - Woody Allen | Life and Death Quotes

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I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. - Woody Allen | Life and Death Quotes

Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate. - Woody Allen | Money Quotes

If only God would give me a clear sign, like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. - Woody Allen | Religion Quotes

You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans. - Woody Allen | Religion Quotes

If I could only see one miracle, just one miracle. Like a burning bush, or the seas part, or my uncle Sasha pick up a check. - Woody Allen | Religion Quotes

Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right. - Woody Allen | Sex Quotes

If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips. - Woody Allen | Sex Quotes

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