"How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on youth
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"Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant. "

Buddha on buddha, life, kindness, flower, tree, whisper, spiritual, inspirational, motivational   

"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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"We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage."

Churchill, Winston on age and aging
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"Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised
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"The soul never thinks without a picture."

Aristotle on soul
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"LOVE IS... ONE SOUL IN TWO BODIES"

Aristotle on
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"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time."

Churchill, Winston on government
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"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."

Churchill, Winston on genius
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"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true."

Churchill, Winston on lies and lying
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"Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal."

Churchill, Winston on animals
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"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]"

Churchill, Winston on nations
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"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."

Churchill, Winston on opinions
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"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Churchill, Winston on opportunity
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"Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."

Churchill, Winston on perseverance
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"If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future."

Churchill, Winston on time
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"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

Churchill, Winston on capitalism
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"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."

Churchill, Winston on business
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"When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber."

Churchill, Winston on silence
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"The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age."

Churchill, Winston on science
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"Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time."

Churchill, Winston on planning
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"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."

A Course In Miracles on peace
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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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"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on peace
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"The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone."

Pope John XXIII on peace
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"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on peace
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"An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!"

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on death   

"Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;"

Beecher, Henry Ward on death
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"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."

Blake, William on nature
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"We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree."

Casals, Pablo on humankind
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"Hope is the best part of our riches."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on hope
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"To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably."

Channing, William Ellery on hope
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"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words -- and never stops at all."

Dickinson, Emily on hope
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"Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan."

Ciano, Galeazzo on losers and losing
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"Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive."

Jackson, Jesse on hope
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"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."

Epictetus on hope
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