"Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders."

Brandeis, Louis D. on heaven   

"It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches have them."

Caird, Dr. on heaven   

"To be with God."

Confucius on heaven
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"Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on heaven
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"The heavens and the earth and all that is between them, do you think they were created in jest?"

Koran, The on heaven   

"There is no God but God."

Koran, The on god
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"Know thyself, believe in God, and dare to dream."

Salley, John on dream
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"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."

Schweitzer, Albert on adversity
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"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate."

Dickinson, Emily on fame
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"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on humankind
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"What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?"

Osler, Sir William on students
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"Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy."

Lowell, James Russell on time   

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"A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter."

Sontag, Susan on psychology
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"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies."

Picasso, Pablo on art
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"Truth is immortal; error is mortal."

Eddy, Mary Baker on mistakes   

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"The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music."

Shaftesbury, Lord on truth
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"Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first."

Klee, Paul on beauty
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"Whoever said, It's not whether you win or lose that counts, probably lost."

Navratilova, Martina on losers and losing
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"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain"

Shakespeare, William on words   

"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."

Sarton, May on solitude
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"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."

Prescott, W. B. on patience
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"The principal part of faith is patience."

Macdonald, George on faith
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"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience."

Unknown, Source on patience
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"Patience is passion tamed."

Abbott, Lyman on patience
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"Patience will achieve more than force."

Burke, Edmund on patience
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"Patience is the key to contentment."

Mohammed on patience
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"Give the laborer his wages before his perspiration be dry."

Mohammed on wages
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"A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world."

Mohammed on wealth
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"The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr."

Mohammed on words
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"Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind."

Mohammed on contentment
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"Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on art
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"An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation."

James, William on ideas   

"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

Johnson, Samuel on hope
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"Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny."

Shakespeare, William on slander   

"To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life."

Wilde, Oscar on suffering
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"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."

Paul, Jean on age and aging
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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"A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on illusion
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"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth."

Borne, Ludwig on truth
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"Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on illusion
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