"There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."

Hemingway, Ernest on widowhood
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"Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me and be quiet."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on modesty   

"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."

Byron, Lord on america   

"Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die."

Byron, Lord on greatness   

"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience."

Euripides on science
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"Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."

Dement, William on dream
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"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

Thoreau, Henry David on life
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"America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people."

Byron, Lord on america
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"As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands."

Byron, Lord on ambition
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"He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below."

Byron, Lord on ambition   

"Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication."

Byron, Lord on alcohol and alcoholism
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"All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin."

Byron, Lord on giving
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"I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further."

Byron, Lord on genius
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"A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends."

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order."

Byron, Lord on focus
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"The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on happiness
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"Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing."

Gladden, W. on words
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"There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot."

Unknown, Source on speakers and speaking   

"We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another -- until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices."

Nixon, Richard M. on cooperation   

"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on enemies
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"Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on work   

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."

Keller, Helen on character
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"It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others."

Addison, Joseph on perfection
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"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on happiness
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"A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking."

Chazal, Malcolm De on women
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"All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on aristocracy   

"A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it."

Major, John on consensus   

"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone."

Pascal, Blaise on evil
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"To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self."

Mabie, Hamilton on solitude
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"Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage."

Lovelace, Richard on prison   

"Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart."

Unknown, Source on art
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"The people I'm furious with are the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket."

Loos, Anita on feminism   

"Romances I never read like those I have seen."

Byron, Lord on fiction
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"But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric -- and pure invention is but the talent of a liar."

Byron, Lord on fiction   

"The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure."

Wilder, Thornton on adventure
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"The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice."

Byron, Lord on home
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"A phoneless cord is a great device for people who love peace and quiet."

Unknown, Source on communication   

"All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on fame
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"An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind."

Bagehot, Walter on silence   

"How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak."

FeNelon, Francois on devotions