"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late"

Franklin, Benjamin on life
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"I was a freethinker before I knew how to think."

Shaw, George Bernard on thoughts and thinking
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"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

Frank, Anne on happiness
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"I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty."

Marx, Groucho on poverty and the poor
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"Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement."

Adams, George M. on support
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"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call Failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."

Pickford, Mary on obstacles
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"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."

Swift, Jonathan on vision
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"The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest."

Sophocles on reason   

"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on goals
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"Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander."

Hugo, Victor on society   

"Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool."

Mason, John L. on happiness
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"A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries."

Rogers, Will on opinions
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"A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner."

Halifax, Edward F. on thoughts and thinking
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"The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other"

Laertius, Diogenes on market   

"Never give advice in a crowd."

Proverb, Arabian on advice   

"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on empire   

"Celebrate what you want to see more of."

Peters, Thomas J. on imagination   

"Every little thing counts in a crisis."

Nehru, Jawaharlal on crisis   

"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on appreciation
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"An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued."

Cobb, Irvin S. on epitaphs   

"Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward."

Sampson, Patricia on self-reliance
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"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails."

Darrow, Clarence on truth
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"Every cloud has a silver lining."

Proverb on deception
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"Caution is the parent of safety."

Proverb on caution
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"In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. [Ephesians 1:7]"

Bible on forgiveness
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"Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not."

Dhammapada on action
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"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man."

Pope, Alexander on knowledge   

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind."

Neal, John on adversity
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"Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter."

Proverb, African on history and historians
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"When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well."

Proverb, Japanese on planning
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"Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances."

Azarias on law and lawyers
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"Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue."

Herschel, Sir John on respectability
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"Manana is often the busiest day of the week."

Proverb, Spanish on procrastination
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"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare."

Twain, Mark on courage
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"Were it not for hope the heart would break."

Proverb, Scottish on hope
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"It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot."

Nabokov, Vladimir on fame   

"One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world."

Proverb, Jewish on family
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"O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands."

Sun Tzu on secrets