"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it."

Williams, Tennessee on money
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"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action."

Williams, Tennessee on sensitivity
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"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

Williams, Tennessee on anger
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"Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite."

Carlyle, Thomas on music   

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? 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 and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."

Thoreau, Henry David on purpose
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"He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him."

Plato on anger
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"Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him."

Barrymore, John on death
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"Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?"

Barrymore, John on money
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"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

Barrymore, John on dream
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"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

Hill, Napoleon on adversity
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"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"Faith is a higher faculty than reason."

Bailey, Henry Christopher on faith
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"Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven."

Beaumont, Francis on faith
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"Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future."

Benedict, Ruth on faith
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"Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it."

Bernanos, Georges on faith
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"I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind."

Bernard, St. on faith
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"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]"

Bible on faith
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"Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shall find it after many days."

Bible on faith   

"In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."

Bailey, Henry Christopher on faith
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"Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe."

Augustine, St. on faith
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"May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?"

Auden, W. H. on faith
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"Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand."

Acquinas, Saint Thomas on faith
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"God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body."

Holliwell, Raymond on faith
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"Knowledge is power."

Bacon, Francis on knowledge
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"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it."

Churchill, Winston on knowledge
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"Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill."

Churchill, Winston on intentions
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"If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another"

Churchill, Winston on humankind
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"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right."

Churchill, Winston on honesty
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"If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety."

Billings, Josh on faith
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"What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth."

Butler, Samuel on faith
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"You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it."

Butler, Samuel on faith
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"A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason."

Carlyle, Thomas on reason
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"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on decisions
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"There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on fanatics and fanaticism
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"There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on motivation
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"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes."

Buddha on endurance
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"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory."

Barclay, William on endurance
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"Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest."

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington on endurance
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