"Misfortunes tell us what fortune is."

Fuller, Thomas on misfortunes
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"The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being."

Hammarskjold, Dag on purpose
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"The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on anarchism
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"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on medicine
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"A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back."

Woolf, Virginia on excellence   

"Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria --- anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor."

Kinsella, W.P. on labor   

"One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on fellowship   

"For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections."

Pilgrim, Peace on vision
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"No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person."

Cather, Willa on independence
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"A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."

Rogers, Will on learning
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"There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self."

Proverb, Indian on competition
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"I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped."

Murdoch, Iris on worship   

"And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, none knew so well as I: for he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die."

Wilde, Oscar on hypocrisy
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"All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone."

Pascal, Blaise on misers and misery   

"I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else."

Day-Lewis, Daniel on self-delusion   

"The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology."

Auerbach, Red on action
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"A character is a completely fashioned will."

Novalis on character   

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"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. "

Plato on uncategorised
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"This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven."

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot on nations
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"A man's character is his guardian divinity."

Heraclitus on character   

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."

Godwin, Gail on teacher
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"Make no judgments where you have no compassion."

Mccaffrey, Anne on judgment and judges
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"Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh."

Valery, Paul on truth
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"Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone."

Bowen, Elizabeth on lies and lying
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"Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors."

Kaufman, Herbert on dream
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"I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for."

Grimke, Angelina on prayer
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"Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity."

Dawes, Charles G. on mediocrity   

"The people are to be taken in small doses."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on people
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"I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nationalities and nationalism
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"Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well."

Ustinov, Peter on purpose
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"Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written."

Thoreau, Henry David on books - reading
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"The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on thoughts and thinking   

"A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one."

Carlyle, Thomas on biography   

"The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men."

Pascal, Blaise on originality
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"In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create."

Vaneigem, Raoul on industry
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Mead, Margaret on work
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"We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten."

Pavese, Cesare on memory
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"Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife."

Bundy, Al on wives   

"Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on intelligence and intellectuals
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"He does not weep who does not see."

Hugo, Victor on cries and crying
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