"Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name."

Paul, Jean on idleness   

"The person who has no enemies has no followers."

Piatt, Don on leadership   

"The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?"

Bhagavad Gita on mind
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"They can because they think they can."

Virgil on belief
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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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"I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad."

Shakespeare, William on happiness
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"Success... it's what you do with what you've got."

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

Selye, Hans on attitude
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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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"The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them."

Lehmann, Rosamond on seduction
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"Be good and you will be lonely."

Twain, Mark on loneliness
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"Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her."

Sade, Marquis De on women
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"Never say die."

Proverb on perseverance
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"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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"Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them."

Horace on gossip
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"If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it."

Hays, Brian on perseverance
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"What is research, but a blind date with knowledge."

Henry, William on research
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"When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding."

Douglas, Mack R. on success
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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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"He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that."

Twain, Mark on flowers
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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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"We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been."

Eliot, George on reality   

"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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"Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation."

Macaulay, J. C. on pity
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"Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other."

Cassady, Neal on art   

"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

Wilde, Oscar on faces
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"He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you as a hair clasp gathers the hair."

I Ching on enthusiasm
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"Journeys end in lovers meeting."

Shakespeare, William on travel
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"It is tact that is golden, not silence."

Butler, Samuel on tact and tactfulness
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"Reason is the enemy of faith."

Luther, Martin on faith
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"Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it."

Twain, Mark on marriage
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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

Churchill, Winston on heroes and heroism
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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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"I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."

Austen, Jane on work
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"A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy."

Fawkes, Guy on assassination   

"The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless."

Voltaire on punishment
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"In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King."

Apostolius, Michael on blindness
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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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