"Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on argument
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"Never follow the crowd."

Baruch, Bernard M. on individuality
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"Many have too much, but none enough."

Proverb, Danish on action
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"It's astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies."

Proverb, Yiddish on death
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"The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on sports
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"We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on advice   

"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours."

Hammarskjold, Dag on destiny
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"I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind."

Bernard, St. on faith
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"The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels."

Bernard, St. on tears
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"Earth laughs in flowers."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on flowers
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"The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold."

Boufflers on solitude
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"Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives."

Hunt, Trinidad on change
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"The future influences the present just as much as the past."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on the future
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"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on achievement
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"Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on poetry and poets   

"The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on speakers and speaking   

"A conscience without God is like a court without a judge."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on science   

"A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him."

Mathews, Harry on choice   

"We are franker towards others than towards ourselves."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on frankness
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on music
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"The word Christianity is already a misunderstanding -- in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on jesus christ
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"Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on past
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"Anyone can hate. It costs to love."

Williamson, John on hatred
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"Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?"

Kollwitz, KaThe on war   

"Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure."

Clinton, Bill on pessimism
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"Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do."

Steinbeck, John on life   

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."

Washington, Booker T. on excellence
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"I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?"

Thoreau, Henry David on imagination
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"The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory."

Pascal, Blaise on effort
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"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways."

Pascal, Blaise on art
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"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world."

Pascal, Blaise on imagination   

"Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair."

Pascal, Blaise on jesus christ
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"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."

Pascal, Blaise on kindness   

"We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so."

Pascal, Blaise on life   

"A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on freedom
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"Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on impossibility
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