"When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is."

Wilde, Oscar on money
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"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"A wounded deer leaps the highest."

Dickinson, Emily on adversity
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"The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection."

Lawrence, D. H. on women
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"There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street."

Lawrence, D. H. on morality   

"Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?"

Hugo, Victor on potential
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"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words -- and never stops at all."

Dickinson, Emily on hope
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"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."

Hobbes, Thomas on curiosity
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"He does not weep who does not see."

Hugo, Victor on cries and crying
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"Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure."

Hugo, Victor on thoughts and thinking
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"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on courage
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"Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge -- exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure."

Hobbes, Thomas on curiosity
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"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last."

Johnson, Samuel on curiosity
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"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."

Hugo, Victor on compliments
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"We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on progress   

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."

Proverb, Japanese on vision
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"In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind."

Wordsworth, William on reverie
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"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on reverie   

"If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on loneliness
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"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."

Wilde, Oscar on humankind
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"Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

Wilde, Oscar on imagination
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"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated."

Dickens, Charles on emotions
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"To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual."

Wilde, Oscar on action
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

Wilde, Oscar on happiness
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"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."

Balzac, Honore De on emotions
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Wilde, Oscar on fashion
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on sincerity
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"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on emotions
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"Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, Go to sleep by yourselves. And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help."

Mead, Margaret on independence   

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating --people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on knowledge
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"When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true."

Wilde, Oscar on art
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"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."

King Jr. Martin Luther on disappointments
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"I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on suffering
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"Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on slavery
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"Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on repentance   

"Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on judgment and judges
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"The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on integrity
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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on age and aging
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