"You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are."

Arrington, Eva on thoughts and thinking
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"Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on knowledge
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"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness."

Lao-Tzu on happiness
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"I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can."

Ball, Lucille on knowledge
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"Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily."

Brisbane, Arthur on solitude
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"A writer who writes, I am alone... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes."

Blanchot, Maurice on solitude
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"The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on solitude
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"The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold."

Boufflers on solitude
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"No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone."

Browne, Jackson on solitude
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"In solitude, where we are least alone."

Byron, Lord on solitude
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"Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."

Camus, Albert on solitude   

"History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion."

Carlyle, Thomas on solitude
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"Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are."

Cecil, Robert on solitude
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"The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death."

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand on solitude
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"If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry."

Chekhov, Anton on solitude
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"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

Churchill, Winston on solitude
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"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."

Cowley, Abraham on solitude
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"Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again."

Cioran, E. M. on solitude
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"All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into."

Howe, Edgar Watson on trials
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"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath."

Aeschylus on promises   

"Promise is most given when the least is said."

Chapman, George on promises   

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"But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."

Frost, Robert on promises
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"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."

Fuller, Thomas on promises   

"Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

Hazlitt, William on promises
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"Better break your word than do worse in keeping it."

Fuller, Thomas on promises   

"The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition."

Jung, Carl on promises   

"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on promises
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"It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office."

Maclaine, Shirley on promises
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"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."

Michelangelo on promises   

"He loses his thanks who promises and delays."

Proverb on promises   

"In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter."

Proverb, Chinese on promises
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"Eggs and oaths are easily broken."

Proverb, Danish on promises
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"Nothing weights lighter than a promise."

Proverb, German on promises   

"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on promises   

"Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms."

Ruckett on promises   

"One promises much, to avoid giving little."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on promises   

"Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise."

Wilder, Thornton on promises
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"Talk is cheap, but promises are expensive. Only use them on occasions."

Jvongard on promises   

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on giving
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"Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

Mother Teresa on love
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