"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on idleness
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"Our life is made by the death of others."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on life
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"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on mind
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"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on mind
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"A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on painters and painting
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"Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on authority
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"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on body
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"Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on understanding
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"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on understanding
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"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on common sense
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"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on death
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"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on death
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"Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing."

Southey, Robert on ambition   

"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."

Twain, Mark on desire
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"Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on vanity
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"All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things."

Southey, Robert on deception
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"How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems."

Southey, Robert on appearance
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"Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things."

Southey, Robert on organization   

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

King Jr. Martin Luther on ignorance
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"“Wondering is the seed of genius”"

Mocca, William on genius
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"Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on opportunity
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"Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it."

Lehrer, Tom on life
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"Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."

Congreve, William on music
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"The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two."

Swetchine, Anne Sophie on friends and friendship
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"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."

Smith, Sydney on friends and friendship
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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

Eliot, George on adversity
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"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."

Cocteau, Jean on adversity
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"To Achieve Massive Success, you need to convert your wants into Needs."

Dharam on
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"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do."

Ball, Lucille on effort
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"To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright."

Benjamin, Walter on war
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"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."

Rougamont, Denis De on acceptance
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"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther."

Morgan, John Pierpont on possibilities
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"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."

Blake, William on christians and christianity
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"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do."

Hubbard, Elbert on decisions
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"Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

Hubbard, Elbert on friends and friendship
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"Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself."

Hubbard, Elbert on failure
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"You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think."

Hubbard, Elbert on education
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back."

Buren, Abigail Van on character
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"You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life."

Bilkey, James G. on difficulties
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