"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own."

Algren, Nelson on advice
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"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."

Scott, Sir Walter on deceit
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"Age, like distance lends a double charm."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on age and aging
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"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on age and aging
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"A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on age and aging
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"What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on doctors
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"Apology is only egotism wrong side out."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on excuses
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"The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on faith
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on faith
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"The Amen of nature is always a flower."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on flowers
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"The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on freedom   

"Trust in your preparation."

Sheppard, Davie on preparation   

"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction."

James, William on happiness
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"The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started."

Holland, Josiah Gilbert on life
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"Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on endurance
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"THOU, too, sail on, O Ship of 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!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on fate
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"Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on difficulties
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"Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on difficulties
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"Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on difficulties
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"Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on failure   

"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on failure
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"One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on dream   

"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on achievement
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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on forgiveness
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"The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on firmness
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"Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on fame   

"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on control
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"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on lie
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"We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on
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"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on uniqueness
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"Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety."

Smith, Frank on anxiety
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"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality."

Seneca on anxiety
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"Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained."

Roche, Arthur Somers on anxiety
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"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

Adams, Henry Brooks on friends and friendship
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"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""

Kerouac, Jack on passion
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"I wish I knew what I know now before."

Stewart, Rod on knowledge
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"Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit."

Thoreau, Henry David on disease
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"The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!"

Williams, Tennessee on hypocrisy
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"We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!"

Williams, Tennessee on isolation
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"In memory everything seems to happen to music."

Williams, Tennessee on memory
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