"You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are."

Arrington, Eva on thoughts and thinking
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"By words the mind is winged."

Aristophanes on words
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"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."

Beecher, Henry Ward on words
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"The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold."

Unknown, Source on words   

"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."

Byron, Lord on words
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"Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman."

Euripides on women
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"Words of love, are works of love."

Alger, William R. on words
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"A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed."

Ibsen, Henrik on words
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"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

Parr, Ellen on bores and boredom   

"Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good."

Unknown, Source on solitude
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"One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict -- girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe."

Percival, Lord on solitude
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"Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity."

Ovid on solitude
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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on solitude
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"Science is but an image of the truth."

Bacon, Francis on science
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"Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural."

Barr, Amelia E. on science   

"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude."

Thoreau, Henry David on solitude
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"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother."

Lin Yu-tang on mothers
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"Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother."

Nunn, Gregory on mothers
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"The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes."

Keble, John on mothers
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"A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man."

Eliot, George on mothers
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"Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same -- and most mothers kiss and scold together."

Buck, Pearl S. on mothers
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"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

Beecher, Henry Ward on mothers
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"A mother who is really a mother is never free."

Balzac, Honore De on mothers
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"Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on mothers
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"Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?"

Shakespeare, William on suicide
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"Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious."

Forbes, B. C. on suspicion
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"Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life."

Durkheim, Emile on sadness
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"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others."

Pilgrim, Peace on peace
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"What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace."

Conrad, Joseph on peace
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing."

Nin, Anais on love
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"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

Fuller, Thomas on absence
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"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain."

Rambler on forgiveness
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"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on death
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"What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on repentance
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"True valor lies between cowardice and rashness."

Cervantes, Miguel De on valor
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"Striving to better, oft we mar what's well."

Shakespeare, William on perfection
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"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Well-ordered self-love is right and natural."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on love
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"Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments."

Kelty, Mary Ann on things and little things
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"Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral."

Albran, Kehlog on funerals