"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box."

Proverb, Italian on death
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"Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion."

Proverb, Arabian on death
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"There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed."

Pound, Ezra on death
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"The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life."

Lucan, F. L. on death   

"We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass."

Marx, Karl on time
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"There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on greatness
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"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."

Franklin, Benjamin on work
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"A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man."

Johnson, Samuel on respectability   

"Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford--but you'll take him anyway."

Viorst, Judith on infatuation
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"Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on economy and economics   

"More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat."

Twain, Mark on prayer
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"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?"

Michelangelo on spirituality
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"Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on health
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"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!"

Shakespeare, William on humankind
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"The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on envy
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"Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble."

Scott, Sir Walter on ridicule   

"To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness."

Franklin, Benjamin on modesty
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"The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game."

Beecher, Henry Ward on cynics and cynicism
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"To generous souls every task is noble."

Euripides on generosity
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"To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them."

Plutarch on risk   

"Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. "

Lowell, James Russell on uncategorised   

"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."

Baldwin, James on abuse
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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before."

Unknown, Source on abuse
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"That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts."

Shakespeare, William on patience
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"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."

Beaumont, Francis on silence
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"The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone."

Fromm, Erich on involvement   

"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on forgiveness
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"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on self-respect
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"Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue."

Tupper, Martin on anger   

"No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change."

Ruskin, John on art   

"Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on manners   

"All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene."

Channing, William Ellery on enthusiasm   

"There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self."

Proverb, Indian on competition
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"There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich."

Seneca on poverty and the poor   

"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on security   

"To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble."

Twain, Mark on teacher
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"The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself."

Cousins, Norman on tragedies
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"The only cure for grief is action."

Lewis, George Henry on grief
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"No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first."

Pavese, Cesare on love
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"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away."

Parker, Dorothy on love
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