"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."

Addison, Joseph on age and aging
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"Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words."

Cummings, Fr. Jerome on love
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"Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion."

Proverb, Arabian on death
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"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."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on death
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"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

Bard, Carl on beginning
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"Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on heaven
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"A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on creativity
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"First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil on creativity
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"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen."

Bresson, Robert on creativity
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"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."

Ruskin, John on success
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"A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

Whitman, Walt on flowers   

"How much of human life is lost in waiting."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on expectation
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"Who is mightier than death? Those who can smile when death threatens."

Ruckett on death
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"And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying."

Rossetti, Christina on death
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"Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality."

Richter, Jean Paul on death
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"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box."

Proverb, Italian on death
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"Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking."

Davy, Sir Humphrey on language
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"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."

Kingsolver, Barbara on hope
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"People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past."

Kundera, Milan on the future
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"Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends."

Adams, Dawn on books - reading
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"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on relationship
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"Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time."

Chambers, Oswald on faith
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"Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character."

Lowell, James Russell on solitude
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"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."

Huxley, Aldous on solitude
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"Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression."

Home, Henry on solitude
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"The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on solitude
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"History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion."

Carlyle, Thomas on solitude
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"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

Franklin, Benjamin on writers and writing
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"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."

Luther, Martin on eternity
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"Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting."

Hoffer, Eric on escapism
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"Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort."

Cocteau, Jean on escapism
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"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds."

Thoreau, Henry David on eccentricity
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"Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day."

Duras, Marguerite on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on faults
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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."

Cicero, Marcus T. on envy
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"The trodden path is the safest."

Maxim, Legal on safety   

"Safety is from God alone."

Motto on safety   

"What is conceived well is expressed clearly."

Destouches, Philippe Nericault on simplicity
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"The most complex things are the simplest."

Celeste, Agni on simplicity
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"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."

Crane, Frank on trust
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