"The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on faith
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on faith
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"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on fame   

"The Amen of nature is always a flower."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on flowers
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"Good Americans when they die, go to Paris."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on america
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"Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on ancestry
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"Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on history and historians   

"People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?"

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on humankind
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"Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on ideals and idealism   

"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on ideas
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"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on ideas
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"Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on ideas
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"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on insights
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"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on kisses and kissing
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"How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?"

Bright, Grant M. on death
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""For the point of life is not knowledge, not pleasure, not even fame itself, but simply to become a better man." – Lewis Carroll"

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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."

Franklin, Benjamin on stupidity
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"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted."

Mother Teresa on disease
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"Liars are always ready to take oaths."

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di on lies and lying
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"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on control
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"I have tried in my way to be free. "

Cohen, Leonard on
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"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world."

Cohen, Leonard on insomnia
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"Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days."

Alain, Henri on farming and farmers   

"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."

Bryson, Bill on farming and farmers
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"Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world."

Pascal, Blaise on life
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself."

Plato on thoughts and thinking
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"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on purpose
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"Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on society
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"Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends."

Delille, Jacques on friends and friendship
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"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."

La Fontaine, Jean De on friends and friendship
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"A memory lasts forever. Never does it die. True friends stay together. And never say goodbye!"

Anonymous on friends   

"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. "

Unknown on friendship
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"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Gibran, Kahlil on suffering
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"life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain."

Unknown on life
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"The first mistake are theirs who commit them, the second are theirs that permit them."

Proverb on blame
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"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on excellence
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"Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on fear
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"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on genius
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"[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on humankind
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