"Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish"

La Fontaine, Jean De on soul
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"Good is not good, when better is expected."

Fuller, Thomas on expectation
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"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age."

Einstein, Albert on age and aging
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"I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation."

Hughes, Charles Evans on work
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"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on dissent
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"It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree."

Kennedy, John F. on colleges and universities   

"Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty."

Sue, Eugene on poverty and the poor   

"Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman."

Hilton, Conrad on enthusiasm
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"Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either."

Raddal, Thomas H. on past
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"A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations."

Jampolsky, Gerald G. on creativity
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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on gratitude   

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

Addison, Joseph on happiness
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"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."

Proverb, Arabian on class
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"Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them."

Vanderbilt, Amy on manners   

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on war
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"Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on."

Frost, Robert on losers and losing
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"It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world"

Siegel, Bernie S. on experience
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"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."

Franklin, Benjamin on poverty and the poor
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"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

Jong, Erica on risk
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"If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you."

Wilder, Billy on truth
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"More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on wisdom   

"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on argument
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"The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success."

Berlin, Irving on success
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"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."

Buddha on hatred
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"I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn."

Parker, Dorothy on apathy
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"Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on desire
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"The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils."

Pliny The Elder on life   

"Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others."

Carlyle, Thomas on potential
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"The discipline of desire is the background of character."

Locke, John on desire
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"Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government."

Bierce, Ambrose on rebellion   

"People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on time
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"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance."

Hoffer, Eric on religion
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"Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak. "

Homer on uncategorised   

"Death rather than disgrace."

Motto on honor   

"The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy."

Mencken, H. L. on democracy   

"Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist."

Plutarch on fate
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"A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on purpose
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"They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Franklin, Benjamin on liberty
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"A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another."

Bourget, Paul on love
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"A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit."

Herbert, George on compromise
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