"Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves."

Huxley, Aldous on silence   

"It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others."

John of the Cross, St. on silence
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"I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it."

Thoreau, Henry David on silence   

"The unspoken word never does harm."

Kossuth, Lajos on silence   

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."

Lincoln, Abraham on silence
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"Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?"

Marceau, Marcel on silence   

"Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart."

Mcginley, Phyllis on silence
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"Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives."

Taylor, Terry Lynn on gratitude
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"The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. "

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised   

"The mouth of a cannon is safer that the mouth of a woman scorned."

Unknown, Source on women
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"If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation."

Limbaugh, Rush on taxes and taxation
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"Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notionor you shall learn nothing. "

Ford, Gerald R. on uncategorised   

"This is the fourth?"

Jefferson, Thomas on famous last words
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"Lord, let me live until I die."

Rogers, Will on famous last words
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"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."

Seneca on hatred
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"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on perfection
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"I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make be the difference of price what it may. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised
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"I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised   

"Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel."

Johnson, Samuel on night
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"And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on night
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"Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them."

Seneca on night
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"Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources."

Trogdon, William on night
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"Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair."

Ovid on night
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"I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am."

Johnson, Samuel on humankind   

"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."

Jefferson, Thomas on republican   

"Never spend your money before you have earned it."

Jefferson, Thomas on economy and economics
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"In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal."

Jefferson, Thomas on fanatics and fanaticism   

"Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state."

Jefferson, Thomas on farming and farmers   

"The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses."

Jefferson, Thomas on generals   

"Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office"

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."

Jefferson, Thomas on happiness   

"Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities."

Jefferson, Thomas on innovation   

"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does."

Borges, Jorge Luis on night
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"Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness."

Paul, Jean on god
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"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on expectation   

"Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below."

Byron, Lord on jealousy   

"A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind."

Shenstone, William on criticism   

"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on humankind
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