"Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph."

Murdoch, Iris on love
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"Some people would rather be wrong than quiet for a minute."

Unknown, Source on wrong   

"The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water."

Proverb, Camerounian on wisdom   

"Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on time   

"The good and the wise lead quiet lives."

Euripides on solitude
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"Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher."

Unknown, Source on philosophers and philosophy   

"Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions."

Hammarskjold, Dag on peace
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"Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye."

O'Malley, Austin on happiness   

"If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is."

Dyer, Wayne on enlightenment
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"True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked."

Segal, Erich on love
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"Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star."

Byron, Lord on fate
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"All farewells should be sudden, when forever."

Byron, Lord on farewells
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"The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh."

Byron, Lord on fantasy
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"Fame is the thirst of youth."

Byron, Lord on fame
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"Folly loves the martyrdom of fame."

Byron, Lord on fame   

"I awoke one morning and found myself famous."

Byron, Lord on fame   

"It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep."

Byron, Lord on faith
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"I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness."

Byron, Lord on engagement
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"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."

Byron, Lord on empire   

"Prolonged endurance tames the bold."

Byron, Lord on endurance   

"I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts."

Byron, Lord on dissent
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"It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one."

Byron, Lord on debt   

"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"

Byron, Lord on age and aging   

"I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming."

Byron, Lord on age and aging   

"The heart will break, but broken live on."

Byron, Lord on art
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"Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world."

Margolius, Hans on perception
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"Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance."

Byron, Lord on science   

"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."

Byron, Lord on sarcasm   

"They never fail who die in a great cause."

Byron, Lord on sacrifice   

"The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity."

Byron, Lord on repentance
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"A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war."

Byron, Lord on bargains   

"Poetry should only occupy the idle."

Byron, Lord on poetry and poets   

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"Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much -- and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come."

Byron, Lord on pleasure   

"Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen."

Byron, Lord on patriotism
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"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

Byron, Lord on pain
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"The good old times -- all times when old are good."

Byron, Lord on nostalgia
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"Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?"

Byron, Lord on opinions   

"As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others."

Byron, Lord on nature
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"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."

Byron, Lord on mystery
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"We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive."

Byron, Lord on motives
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