"Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on honesty
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"It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on honesty   

"Honesty is the best policy."

Franklin, Benjamin on honesty
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"Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom."

Jefferson, Thomas on honesty
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"When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to achieve or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing."

Keyes Jr., Ken on honesty
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"If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else."

Marden, Orison Swett on honesty   

"Honesty prospers in every condition of life."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on honesty   

"We're not in Wonderland anymore Alice."

Manson, Charles on madness
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"In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!"

Ballard, J. G. on madness
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"The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason."

Broch, Hermann on madness
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"Goodness is the only investment which never fails."

Thoreau, Henry David on goodness
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"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well."

Thoreau, Henry David on egotism
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"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied."

Twain, Mark on envy
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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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"Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi, Mahatma on happiness
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"We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on age and aging
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"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on decisions
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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faith
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"All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faith
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"The course of everything goes to teach us faith."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faith   

"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

Thoreau, Henry David on advice
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"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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"Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art."

Foucault, Michel on madness
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"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love."

Bailey, Pearl on love
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"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."

Thoreau, Henry David on faith
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"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible."

Marden, Orison Swett on impossibility
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"To the sick, while there is life there is hope."

Cicero, Marcus T. on hope
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"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."

Allen, Woody on love
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"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on love
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"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."

Greer, Germaine on loneliness
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"It's not the situation. It's your reaction to the situation."

Conklin, Robert on attitude
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"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."

Epictetus on difficulties
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