"It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death."

Twain, Mark on despair
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"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."

Twain, Mark on dissent
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"Never accept a drink from a Urologist."

Bombeck, Erma on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on charm
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"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."

Iacocca, Lee on friends and friendship
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"Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?"

Keats, John on fame
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"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do."

Carnegie, Andrew on action
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"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

Angelou, Maya on defeat
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"Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week."

Shaw, George Bernard on thoughts and thinking   

"The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business."

Mitchell, Margaret on forgiveness   

"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing."

Voltaire on doctors
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"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up."

Twain, Mark on indecision
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"If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest."

Syrus, Publilius on ambition   

"The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity."

Wickett, Michael on problems
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"Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck."

Chanel, Coco on dress   

"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on complaints and complaining
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"It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to."

Hurst, Fannie on cynics and cynicism   

"Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression."

Home, Henry on solitude
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"Misfortune does not always result in harm."

Proverb, Italian on misfortunes   

"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on life   

"I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all."

Michelangelo on life   

"A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself."

Shaw, George Bernard on interest   

"Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless."

Shaw, George Bernard on desire
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"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."

Shaw, George Bernard on elections   

"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."

Shaw, George Bernard on forgiveness
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"It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date."

Shaw, George Bernard on generations   

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"So much to do, so little done, such things to be."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on achievement
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist."

Shaw, George Bernard on population
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"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"

Shaw, George Bernard on beauty
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"I was a freethinker before I knew how to think."

Shaw, George Bernard on thoughts and thinking
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"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it."

Shaw, George Bernard on tragedies
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"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."

Shaw, George Bernard on happiness
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"Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."

Shaw, George Bernard on youth
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"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."

Shaw, George Bernard on convalescence   

"She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."

Shaw, George Bernard on conversation   

"All farewells should be sudden, when forever."

Byron, Lord on farewells
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"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."

Ballou, Hosea on happiness
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"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

Epictetus on affirmation
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"We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are."

Depree, Max on change
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