"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives."

Mencken, H. L. on bachelor   

"Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist."

Mencken, H. L. on history and historians   

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."

Plath, Sylvia on perspective
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"Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about."

Short, Solomon on intelligence and intellectuals
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"What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever."

Munthe, Axel on giving
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"Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea."

Dorfsman, Lou on creativity
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"Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark."

Henry, O. on famous last words
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"What is the answer? [Silence] In that case, what is the question?"

Stein, Gertrude on famous last words
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"Now comes the mystery."

Beecher, Henry Ward on famous last words
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"Thought is free."

Shakespeare, William on thoughts and thinking
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"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."

Adams, John on freedom
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"The fog is rising."

Dickinson, Emily on famous last words
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"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, For both are infinite"

Shakespeare, William on possibilities
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"I do desire we may be better strangers."

Shakespeare, William on anger
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"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."

Adams, Douglas on dream
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"The beauty of the past is that it is the past. The beauty of the now is to know it. The beauty of the future is to see where one is going."

Unknown, Source on past
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"The course of true love never did run smooth."

Shakespeare, William on quarrels
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"Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one."

Halm, Fredrich on soul
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"Wise men argue cases, fools decide them."

Anacharsis on argument   

"After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world."

Suttner, Bertha Von on love
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"Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Churchill, Winston on fanatics and fanaticism
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"Sweets grown common lose their dear delight."

Shakespeare, William on familiarity
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"Pain pays the income of each precious thing."

Shakespeare, William on pain
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"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon on courage
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"Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life."

Novalis on art   

"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."

Ashe, Arthur on giving
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"Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring."

Harris, Sidney J. on teacher
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"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on wisdom
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"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always."

Schweitzer, Albert on truth
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"Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors."

Alcott, Louisa May on education
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"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."

Alcott, Louisa May on girls
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"Housekeeping ain't no joke."

Alcott, Louisa May on work   

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"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

Alcott, Louisa May on vision
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"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship."

Alcott, Louisa May on adversity
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"The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics. "

Schweitzer, Albert on uncategorised
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"The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others."

Schweitzer, Albert on kindness
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"Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile."

Schweitzer, Albert on animals
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"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

Schweitzer, Albert on success
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