"A riot is the language of the unheard."

King Jr. Martin Luther on rebellion
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"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it."

Proust, Marcel on ideas
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"Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on fame   

"Don't be one to remember everything lent, but forget everything borrowed."

Unknown, Source on borrowing   

"The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty."

Unknown, Source on joy
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"Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it."

Unknown, Source on luck   

"If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough."

Unknown, Source on thoughts and thinking   

"Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying."

Unknown, Source on knowledge   

"If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on writers and writing   

"The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on music
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"Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on character
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"Well-ordered self-love is right and natural."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on love
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"I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive."

Chesterfield, Lord on indolence   

"Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment."

Chesterfield, Lord on enemies
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"Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults."

Chesterfield, Lord on egotism   

"The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it."

Chesterfield, Lord on dress   

"He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength."

Joubert, Joseph on friends and friendship
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"Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives."

Younger, Dumas The on friends and friendship
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"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."

Peguy, Charles on love
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"Life is too short for a long story."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on anecdotes
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"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."

Thoreau, Henry David on success
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"The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in."

Chesterfield, Lord on time   

"Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others."

Chesterfield, Lord on ancestry
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"Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well."

Chesterfield, Lord on worth   

"Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold."

Fuller, Margaret on love
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"To love without role, without power plays, is revolution."

Brown, Rita Mae on love
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"I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can."

Brown, Rita Mae on age and aging   

"If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle."

Brown, Rita Mae on world   

"Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends."

Chesterfield, Lord on friends and friendship
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"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves."

Chesterfield, Lord on time   

"Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed."

Chesterfield, Lord on failure   

"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it."

Chesterfield, Lord on world   

"Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world."

Chesterfield, Lord on manners   

"Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient?"

Proust, Marcel on neurosis
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"The reward of suffering is experience."

Aeschylus on adversity
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"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."

Chesterfield, Lord on advice
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"The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions."

Brault, Robert on prayer   

"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."

Brault, Robert on friends and friendship
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