"The road to a friend's house is never long."

Proverb, Danish on friends and friendship
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"The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it."

Proverb, Danish on facts
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"No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor."

Proverb, Danish on friends and friendship   

"Sight before hearsay."

Proverb, Danish on gossip   

"Better to ask twice than to lose your way once."

Proverb, Danish on ask
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"Eggs and oaths are easily broken."

Proverb, Danish on promises
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"Unwilling service earns no thanks."

Proverb, Danish on service   

"Blame is a lazy man's wages."

Proverb, Danish on blame   

"The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it."

Albee, Edward on creativity
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"How much of human life is lost in waiting."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on expectation
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on facts
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"The more experiments you make the better."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on experience
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"If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on facts
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"Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on facts   

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

Franklin, Benjamin on education
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"Energy and persistence alter all things."

Franklin, Benjamin on energy
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"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."

Franklin, Benjamin on excuses
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"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."

Franklin, Benjamin on expenditure
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"Well done, is better than well said."

Franklin, Benjamin on example
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

Eliot, T. S. on age and aging
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"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."

Eliot, T. S. on age and aging
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"An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better."

Eliot, T. S. on editing and editors   

"The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason."

Eliot, T. S. on deeds and good deeds
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"No nation was ever ruined by trade."

Franklin, Benjamin on economy and economics
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"God heals and the doctor takes the fee."

Franklin, Benjamin on doctors
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"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles."

Franklin, Benjamin on advice
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"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."

Franklin, Benjamin on age and aging
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"If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life."

Franklin, Benjamin on age and aging
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"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest."

Franklin, Benjamin on deception
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"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?"

Franklin, Benjamin on deception
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"The discontented man finds no easy chair."

Franklin, Benjamin on discontent
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"What has become clear to you since we last met?"

Franklin, Benjamin on discovery
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"I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers."

Eliot, T. S. on editing and editors
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"Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together."

Eliot, T. S. on emotions
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"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time."

Eliot, T. S. on exploration
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"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on decisions
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"Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on destiny
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