"You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better -- the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read."

Lewis, C. S. on fools and foolishness
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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

Lewis, C. S. on giving
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"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."

Einstein, Albert on government
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"The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free."

Thoreau, Henry David on freedom
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"To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt."

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady on law and lawyers   

"In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law."

Gordimer, Nadine on law and lawyers   

"If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language."

Davies, Robertson on books - reading
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"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age."

Hugo, Victor on age and aging
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"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

Arden, Elizabeth on age and aging
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"Old age is the verdict of life."

Barr, Amelia E. on age and aging   

"Education is the best provision for old age."

Aristotle on education
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"Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age."

Firmianus, Lactantius on memory   

"Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age."

Tarkington, Booth on memory   

"What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among friends and the daily habits or pleasures, the more, it seems to me, it flees me and retires into its fortress. The poet who lives in solitude, but who produces much, is the one who enjoys those treasures we bear in our bosom, but which forsake us when we give ourselves to others. When one yields oneself completely to one's soul, it opens itself to one, and then it is that the capricious thing allows one the greatest of good fortunes... that of sympathizing with others, of studying itself, of painting itself constantly in its works."

Delacroix, Eugene on loneliness
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"God's retirement plan is out of this world"

Unknown, Source on death
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"The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain."

Proverb, Chinese on age and aging
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"Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on books - reading
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"Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day."

Thomas, Dylan on death
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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

Cicero, Marcus T. on gratitude
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"For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude."

Hodges, Clarence E. on gratitude
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"There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy."

Blum, Ralph H. on gratitude
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"Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude."

Scott, Sir Walter on ambition   

"Gratitude is the heart's memory."

Proverb, French on gratitude
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"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy."

Maritain, Jacques on gratitude   

"Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives."

Taylor, Terry Lynn on gratitude
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"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."

Beecher, Henry Ward on gratitude
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"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

Beattie, Melody on gratitude
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"Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness."

Willis, Nathaniel P. on gratitude   

"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world."

Milton, John on prayer
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"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."

Waitley, Denis on happiness
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"When the insects take over the world we hope they will remember, with gratitude, how we took them along on all our picnics."

Vaughan, Bill on gratitude   

"We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world."

Twain, Mark on death
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"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."

Unknown, Source on appreciation
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"Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give."

Robinson, Edwin Arlington on gratitude   

"Gratitude is a twofold love -- love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest."

Dyke, Henry Van on gratitude
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"Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on bigotry   

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"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on action   

"No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on self-respect
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"Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on ostentation   

"Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on appearance
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