"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

Hughes, Langston on dream
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"There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends."

Lowell, James Russell on weakness
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"Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world."

Shaw, George Bernard on age and aging
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"The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then."

Carlyle, Thomas on fear
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"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

Seneca on fear
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"Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist."

Maugham, W. Somerset on death   

"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."

Eliot, George on death
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"Death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life."

Traver, Amos on death
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"Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on death
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"Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."

Scott, Sir Walter on death
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"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."

Dyke, Henry Van on death
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"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong."

Carlyle, Thomas on decisions
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"Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always."

Unknown, Source on beginning
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"No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."

King Jr. Martin Luther on action
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"The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them."

Clark, Frank A. on parents and parenting
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"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

Camus, Albert on charm
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"There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!"

Twain, Mark on example
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"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."

Twain, Mark on example
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"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting."

Twain, Mark on exercise
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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on facts
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"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Twain, Mark on ambition
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"Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on feelings
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"A useless life is an early death."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on death
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"No one has ever learned fully to know themselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on self discovery
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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on hatred
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"If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on questions
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"People do not lack strength; they lack will."

Hugo, Victor on power
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"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education."

Hugo, Victor on common sense
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"God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool."

Hugo, Victor on flirting
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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

Hugo, Victor on happiness
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"In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge."

Hugo, Victor on enlightenment   

"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."

Russell, Bertrand on hope
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"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right."

Simmons, Edward on detail   

"Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle."

Michelangelo on detail
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"Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom."

Russell, Bertrand on bores and boredom   

"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."

Russell, Bertrand on obscenity   

"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"Our greatest evils flow from ourselves."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on evil
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"Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on money
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"Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on guilt