"Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief."

Schnitzler, Arthur on art   

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

Joubert, Joseph on labor
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"If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies."

Kraus, Karl on journalism and journalists
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"Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can."

Meredith, Owen on talent   

"The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart."

Yeats, William Butler on reason
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"In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female."

Connolly, Cyril on women
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"Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster."

Irving, Washington on genius   

"The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible."

Blair, Hugh on literature   

"Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other."

Metastasio, Pietro on risk
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"Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal."

Shula, Don on success
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"It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."

Hammarskjold, Dag on risk
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"The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind."

Churchill, Winston on mind
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"Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books."

Bachelard, Gaston on literature
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"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on friends and friendship
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"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."

Franklin, Benjamin on conflict
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"What is now proved was only once imagined."

Blake, William on imagination
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"If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail."

Heraclitus on expectation
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"It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do."

Amos, John R. on success
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"For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft."

Cottle, Thomas J. on children   

"To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it."

Colton, Charles Caleb on knowledge   

"At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials."

Woolf, Virginia on age and aging   

"Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on pollution   

"Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand."

Woolf, Virginia on fiction   

"A child miseducated is a child lost."

Kennedy, John F. on children
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"Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on love
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"We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others."

Maugham, W. Somerset on resignation   

"We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on people
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"The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry."

Hare, David on poetry and poets   

"To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all."

Butler, Samuel on death   

"You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read."

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous'' on books - reading
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"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."

Crawford, Joan on love
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"Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it."

Colton, Charles Caleb on detail   

"Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass."

Jerrold, Douglas William on marriage   

"Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself."

Kierkegaard, Søren on bores and boredom
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"The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on conformity
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"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."

Jung, Carl on imagination
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"The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion."

Allen, Fred A. on churches
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"Work is victory."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on work   

"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."

Twain, Mark on words
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"There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere."

Hesse, Hermann on knowledge