"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted."

Aeschylus on advice
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"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."

Aesop on advice
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"Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order."

Agnew, Spiro T. on liberals   

"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."

Akhenaton on doubt
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"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on age and aging
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"Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors."

Alcott, Louisa May on education
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"I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest."

Ali, Muhammad on affirmation
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"To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve."

Allen, James on desire
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"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."

Allen, Woody on illusion
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"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on age and aging
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"From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers."

Lucretius on paradise   

"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."

Addison, Joseph on age and aging
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"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

Adams, John Quincy on obstacles
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"He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on joy
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"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on emotions
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"How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on duty
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"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on dream
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"Only your mind can produce fear."

A Course In Miracles on fear
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"I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it."

Aaron, Hank on failure
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"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

Abbey, Edward on growth
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"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."

Ackerman, Diane on life
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"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion."

Acton, Lord on argument
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"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."

Adams, Douglas on dream
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"They know enough who know how to learn."

Adams, Henry Brooks on education
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"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody."

Adams, Franklin P. on elections   

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

Adams, John on democracy
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"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling."

Lucretius on perseverance
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"Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant."

Lucretius on pleasure   

"Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril."

Lucretius on pleasure   

"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear."

Aurelius, Marcus on endurance
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"In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels."

Austen, Jane on affection
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"Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again."

Arnold, Matthew on death   

"Listen to what you know instead of what you fear."

Bach, Richard on desire
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"Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need."

Bachelard, Gaston on desire
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"There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self."

Bacon, Francis on advice
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"So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism -- despotism during the campaign -- is indispensable."

Bagehot, Walter on despotism   

"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."

Baldwin, James on abuse
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"We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality."

Ballard, J. G. on fiction
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"Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way."

Ballou, Hosea on doubt
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"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."

Balzac, Honore De on emotions
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