"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."

Eliot, T. S. on risk
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"The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning."

Eliot, T. S. on youth
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"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."

Eliot, T. S. on communication
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"Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on age and aging   

"The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you."

Rogers, Will on adversity
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"Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet."

Rogers, Will on friends and friendship   

"It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human."

Rogers, Will on humankind
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"People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide."

Rogers, Will on law suits
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"It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else."

Rogers, Will on marriage   

"You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness."

Rogers, Will on memory
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"When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging"

Rogers, Will on
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"Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels."

Marden, Orison Swett on habit
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"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays."

Hill, Harrold on tomorrow
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"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm"

Thoreau, Henry David on age and aging
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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 always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born."

Aldrich, Thomas B. on bores and boredom
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"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."

Aldrich, Thomas B. on age and aging
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."

Wooden, John on failure
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"Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates."

Szasz, Thomas on self discovery
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"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Einstein, Albert on apathy
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"The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most."

Carnegie, Dale on communication
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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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 is believing what you know ain't so."

Twain, Mark on faith
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Twain, Mark on ambition
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"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

Twain, Mark on gratitude
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"Courage is acting in spite of fear."

Hunter, Howard W. on courage
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"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."

Cummings, Fr. Jerome on friends and friendship
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"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."

Ford, Henry on fear
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"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

Brown, Les on fear
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"Always do what you are afraid to do."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"Never take counsel of your fears."

Jackson, Stonewall on fear
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"We must travel in the direction of our fear."

Berryman, John on fear
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"For love that time was not as love is nowadays"

Thomas Malory on remembrance   

"It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to."

Caulfield, Holden on humankind
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"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

Tagore, Rabindranath on time
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