"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable."

Fromm, Erich on death
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"Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side."

Proverb, Jewish on fools and foolishness
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"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

Confucius on complaints and complaining
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"It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."

West, Jessamyn on mistakes
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"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."

Einstein, Albert on loneliness
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"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."

West, Mae on evil
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"We boil at different degrees."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on anger
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"A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it."

Howells, William Dean on mothers
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"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on business   

"How much of human life is lost in waiting."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on expectation
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"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

Stowe, Harriet Beecher on regret
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"Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life."

Rimbaud, Arthur on youth
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"Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself."

Plato on thoughts and thinking
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"The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it -- and sometimes three."

Dumas, Alexandre on mother-in-laws
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"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning."

Baker, Ivy on beginning
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"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."

Bierce, Ambrose on religion
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"A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams."

Eco, Umberto on dream   

"A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking   

"Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on life
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"Live today for tomorrow it will all be history."

Proverb on life
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"I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh."

Stanhope, Philip Dormer on laughter   

"Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked."

Vries, Peter De on popularity   

"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe."

Vries, Peter De on ecology
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"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."

Franklin, Benjamin on advice
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"Many foxes grow gray but few grow good."

Franklin, Benjamin on age and aging
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"Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of."

Franklin, Benjamin on time
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"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

James, William on purpose
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"The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people."

Shedd, Charlie on churches
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"Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast."

Antrim, Minna on enthusiasm   

"The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it."

Antrim, Minna on lies and lying
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"The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh."

Antrim, Minna on life
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"Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him."

Antrim, Minna on women
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"A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion."

Antrim, Minna on pleasure   

"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of."

Perkhurst, Charles H. on perception
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"Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom."

Elizabeth, Queen on wisdom
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"A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet."

Proverb, German on mediocrity
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"Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay."

Dickens, Charles on debt
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"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated."

Dickens, Charles on emotions
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"He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two."

Dickens, Charles on eyes
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"Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew."

Dickens, Charles on alcohol and alcoholism
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