"Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age."

Whittier, John Greenleaf on libraries   

"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."

Socrates on riches
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"In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind."

Wordsworth, William on reverie
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"Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall."

Richter, Jean Paul on art   

"Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said."

Rostand, Jean on aphorisms and epigrams
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"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."

Socrates on teacher
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"I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether."

Socrates on senses
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"To find yourself, think for yourself."

Socrates on thoughts and thinking
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"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."

Socrates on knowledge
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"A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure."

Bible on friends and friendship
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"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on friends and friendship
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"Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]"

Bible on friends and friendship
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"Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure."

Bible on friends and friendship
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"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

Adams, Henry Brooks on friends and friendship
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"Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends."

Beecher, Henry Ward on friends and friendship
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"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."

Belloc, Hilaire on friends and friendship
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"Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain."

Baker, Nicholson on friends and friendship
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"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

Bacon, Francis on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is essentially a partnership."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

Bach, Richard on friends and friendship
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"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."

Aretino, Pietro on friends and friendship
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"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."

Alcott, Louisa May on friends and friendship
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"A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]"

Bible on friends and friendship
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"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over."

Boswell, James on friends and friendship
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"I have always laid it down as a maxim --and found it justified by experience --that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex --but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other."

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."

Bronte, Charlotte on friends and friendship
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"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]"

Bible on friends and friendship
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"Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?"

Bronte, Emily on friends and friendship
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"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything."

Cather, Willa on friends and friendship
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"To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is."

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio on vision
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"Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable."

Unknown, Source on vision
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"We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship."

Bradley, Omar Nelson on vision
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"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

Alcott, Louisa May on vision
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"As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers."

Blake, William on vision   

"Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die."

Burnham, Daniel H. on vision
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"The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed upon him by his vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations -- with any conceivable output of the human mind of which you approve. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen."

Chapman, John Jay on vision   

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Clarke, Arthur C. on vision
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"We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams -- even if it takes a lifetime."

Hamilton, Vijali on vision   

"Cherish you visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements."

Hill, Napoleon on vision
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