"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on genius
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"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable."

Patrick, John on wisdom
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"If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening."

Barzan, George on thoughts and thinking
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"Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought."

Horton, Doug on thoughts and thinking
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"If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on lies and lying   

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog."

Franklin, Miles on friends and friendship
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"Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe."

Brown, John Mason on friends and friendship
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"Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view."

Strindberg, J. August on friends and friendship   

"Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!"

Eastman, Charles Alexander on friends and friendship
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"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses."

Storey, David on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another."

Ebers, George on friends and friendship
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"In all things it is better to hope than to despair."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on hope
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"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on potential
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"It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on age and aging   

"The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on adversity
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"Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on faults
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"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

Baldwin, James on change
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"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."

Braude, Jacob M. on change
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"All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement."

Ovid on change
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"Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence."

Paul, Jean on change
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"There is no remedy for love than to love more."

Thoreau, Henry David on love
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."

Shakespeare, William on adversity
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"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt.[Measure For Measure]"

Shakespeare, William on doubt
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"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."

Shakespeare, William on evil
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"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."

Shakespeare, William on war
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"Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant."

Miller, Henry on sex
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"Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it."

Lawrence, D. H. on pornography   

"For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder."

Mcluhan, Marshall on sex   

"There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise."

Ash, Mary Kay on praise
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"Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty."

Rowland, Helen on marriage   

"There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements."

Mailer, Norman on pornography   

"In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female."

Connolly, Cyril on women
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"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain."

Epictetus on abstinence
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"All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on taste   

"Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated."

Confucius on simplicity
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"A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life."

Darwin, Charles R. on time
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"By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on perseverance
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"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension."

Mailer, Norman on writers and writing