"The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities."

Gibran, Kahlil on greatness
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"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."

Gibran, Kahlil on giving
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"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies."

Gibran, Kahlil on advice
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"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."

Addison, Joseph on friends and friendship
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"There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us."

Adams, James Truslow on gossip
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"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Adams, Henry Brooks on words
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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Adams, Henry Brooks on teacher
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"Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage."

Adams, Henry Brooks on chance   

"It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own."

Adams, Henry Brooks on possibilities
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"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

Adams, Henry Brooks on order   

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"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."

Adams, Henry Brooks on inferiority
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"The proper study of mankind is woman."

Adams, Henry Brooks on humankind
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"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

Adams, Henry Brooks on friends and friendship
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"The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry."

Adams, James Truslow on worry
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"It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body. "

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"As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were all men who insisted upon being themselves and who refused to truckle to the people. With each succeeding generation, the growing demand of the people that its elective officials shall not lead but merely register the popular will has steadily undermined the independence of those who derive their power from popular election. The persistent refusal of the Adamses to sacrifice the integrity of their own intellectual and moral standards and values for the sake of winning public office or popular favor is another of the measuring rods by which we may measure the divergence of American life from its starting point. "

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"Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them."

Addison, Joseph on faults
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"Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express."

Addison, Joseph on family
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"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul."

Addison, Joseph on education
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"Of all the foundations of establishments for pious or charitable uses, which ever signalized the spirit of the age, or the comprehensive beneficence of the founder, none can be named more deserving of the approbation of mankind than this. Should it be faithfully carried into effect, with an earnestness and sagacity of application, and a steady perseverance of pursuit, proportioned to the means furnished by the will of the founder, and to the greatness and simplicity of his design as by himself declared, the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men, it is no extravagance of anticipation to declare, that his name will be hereafter enrolled among the eminent benefactors of mankind. Whoever increases his knowledge, multiplies the uses to which he is enabled to turn the gift of his Creator. "

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"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

Adams, John Quincy on courage
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"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."

Adams, John Quincy on voting   

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

Adams, John Quincy on obstacles
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"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."

Adams, John on education
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"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man."

Adams, John on desire
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"They know enough who know how to learn."

Adams, Henry Brooks on education
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"Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to."

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"I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."

Adams, Franklin P. on knowledge
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"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."

Adams, Abigail on words
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"Great necessities call out great virtues."

Adams, Abigail on virtue
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"Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."

Adams, Abigail on learning
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"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between."

Ackerman, Diane on country
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"A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically."

Ackerman, Diane on poetry and poets
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"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."

Ackerman, Diane on life
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"The future comes one day at a time."

Acheson, Dean on the future
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"The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else s."

Ace, Goodman on psychology
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"Let them hate, so long as they fear."

Accius on power
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"You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening."

Abrams, Creighton on communication
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"If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation. "

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"Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances."

Adams, Bryan on thoughts and thinking
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