"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me."

Warner, Sylvia Ashton on certainty
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"Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem."

Aldiss, Brian on creativity
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"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

Mencken, H. L. on cynics and cynicism
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"They can because they think they can."

Virgil on belief
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"The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions."

Newton, Sir Isaac on preachers and preaching
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"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

Hoffer, Eric on kindness
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"The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on leadership
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"Every one comes between men's souls and God, either as a brick wall or as a bridge. Either you are leading men to God or you are driving them away."

Dewar, Canon Lindsay on influence
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"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."

Dyke, Henry Van on death
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"Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one."

Selye, Hans on attitude
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"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."

Lawrence, D. H. on speech
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"It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches have them."

Caird, Dr. on heaven   

"One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid."

Swift, Jonathan on conversation   

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

Russell, Utterly on truth
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"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going."

Priestley, J. B. on age and aging   

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

Buddha on happiness
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"It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment."

Bernard, St. on humility
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"To be like Christ is to be a Christian."

Penn, William on christians and christianity
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"If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on praise
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"The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you."

Astor, Lady Nancy on bores and boredom
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"It's easier traveling the road of life when I don't have so much to carry on my back."

Mitchell, Silas Weir on burdens
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"You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare."

Pancoast, Mal on achievement
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"Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone."

Joel, Billy on courage
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"The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it."

Searles, David on preparation   

"The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on opportunity
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"No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies."

Twain, Mark on truth
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"It is tact that is golden, not silence."

Butler, Samuel on tact and tactfulness
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"Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on judgment and judges
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"A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led."

Cannon, Alexander on stubbornness
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"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."

Rogers, Will on action
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"See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession."

Collier, Robert on imagination
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"Journeys end in lovers meeting."

Shakespeare, William on travel
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"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."

Erasmus, Desiderius on habit
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"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

Lewis, C. S. on education
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"Never, never, never, never give up."

Churchill, Winston on perseverance
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"Heaven never helps the men who will not act."

Sophocles on action
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"I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them."

Lucas, E. V. on tardiness
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"If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice."

Baxter, Bowen on preachers and preaching   

"A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved."

Brande, Dorothea on problems
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"Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away blessed be the name of the Lord."

Bible on suffering
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