"Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more."

Wordsworth, William on generosity   

"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."

Newton, Sir Isaac on imagination
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"This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."

Newton, Sir Isaac on creation
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"I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

Newton, Sir Isaac on science
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"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on love
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"Who loves, raves."

Byron, Lord on love
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"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh on love
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"Well-ordered self-love is right and natural."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on love
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"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody on love
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"Love is a great beautifier."

Alcott, Louisa May on love
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"Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity"

Jones, Chuck on anxiety
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"Love is the beauty of the soul."

Augustine, St. on love
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"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

Bible on love
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"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."

Brown, Charlie on love
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"When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them."

Buber, Martin on love
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"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on love
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"Who so loves believes the impossible."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on love
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"It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black."

Brown, Charlie on trials
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"This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this."

Brown, Charlie on depression
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"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail."

Schuller, Robert H. on possibilities
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"In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell."

Mailer, Norman on violence   

"We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way."

Nightingale, Earl on success
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"Nobody shoots at Santa Claus."

Smith, Alfred E. on benefactors   

"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

Huxley, Aldous on education
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"Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!"

Goldman, Emma on nature   

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"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

Twain, Mark on knowledge
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"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."

Addison, Joseph on books - reading
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"Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends."

Adams, Dawn on books - reading
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"This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force."

Parker, Dorothy on books - reading
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"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight."

Hansen, Mark Victor on achievement
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"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."

Johnson, Samuel on achievement
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"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life."

Adler, Mortimer J. on books - reading
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"Beware of the person of one book."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on books - reading
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"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider."

Bacon, Francis on books - reading
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"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

Bradbury, Ray on books - reading
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"I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."

Bevan, Aneurin on books - reading
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"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"

Beecher, Henry Ward on books - reading
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"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."

Beecher, Henry Ward on books - reading
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