"Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on challenges
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"No wind favors him who has no destined port."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on goals
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"The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh."

Bodett, Tom on laughter
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"We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails."

Unknown, Source on control
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"No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on goals
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"The earth laughs in flowers."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on laughter
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"A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on nature
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"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on questions
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"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."

Whitman, Walt on enemies
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"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."

Whitman, Walt on loneliness
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"Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew."

Apollinaire, Guillaume on fear
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"We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us."

Ovid on desire
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"Like fragile ice anger passes away in time."

Ovid on hatred   

"A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward."

Ovid on leadership   

"Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good."

Ovid on sorrow
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"We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings."

Ovid on belief
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"Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless."

Ovid on temptation   

"It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction."

Auden, W. H. on sensitivity
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"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on love
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"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation."

Austen, Jane on opportunity
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"It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ."

Auden, W. H. on talent
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"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep."

Auden, W. H. on teacher
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"Funeral Blues

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good."

Auden, W. H. on funerals
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"Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue."

Bierce, Ambrose on patience
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"Energy and persistence alter all things."

Franklin, Benjamin on energy
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"Failure is the path of least persistence"

Unknown, Source on failure
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"Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by."

Ovid on perseverance
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"By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on perseverance
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"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over."

Unknown, Source on health
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"At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on uniqueness
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"Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on fate
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"The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense."

Franklin, Benjamin on language
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"We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know."

Auden, W. H. on service
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"You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire."

Auden, W. H. on relationship   

"A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish."

Auden, W. H. on dream
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"Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table."

Auden, W. H. on evil
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"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."

Auden, W. H. on eyes
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"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."

Auden, W. H. on friends and friendship
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"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."

Auden, W. H. on humor
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"We must love one another or die."

Auden, W. H. on love
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