"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) Assassinated [see also "William Boetcker"]"

Lincoln, Abraham on Government
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"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."

Hepburn, Katharine on Men and Women
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"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost."

Foch, Ferdinand on Failure
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"Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease."

Witherspoon on Speakers and Speaking
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"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on Love
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"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide."

Pavese, Cesare on Suicide
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Books - Reading
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"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."

Menninger, Karl A. on Love
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"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already."

Aurelius, Marcus on Fulfillment
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"Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil."

Aurelius, Marcus on Good and Evil
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"Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will--tomorrow!"

Pitzer, Gloria on Procrastination
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"Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life."

Buckrose, J.E on Happiness
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"It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest."

Wilde, Oscar on Saints
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"On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points."

Woolf, Virginia on Pain
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"It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?"

Heschel, Abraham J. on Questions
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"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."

Peale, Norman Vincent on Achievement
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"More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past. "

Warren, Robert Penn on Uncategorised
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"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

Roosevelt, Theodore on Decisions
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"The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Quotations
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"Let him that would move the world, first move himself."

Socrates on Influence
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"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."

Burns, Robert on Certainty
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"Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful."

Wylie, Ida R. on Fidelity
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"Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity."

Fitzhenry, R. I. on Uncertainty
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"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less."

Butler, Nicholas on Experts
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"My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."

Malcolm X on Libraries
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"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."

Twain, Mark on Friends and Friendship
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"Beware of the person of one book."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on Books - Reading
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"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back."

Rubinstein, Arthur on Love
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"Paradise is Where I Am."

Voltaire on Peace of Mind
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"About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends."

Hoover, Herbert Clark on Achievement
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"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."

Aristotle on Education
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"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."

Aristotle on Morality
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"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him."

Pound, Ezra on Freedom
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"Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel."

Walpole, Horace on Life and Living
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"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

Milton, John on Mind
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"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him."

Artaud, Antonin on Insanity
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"Despair is the only genuine atheism."

Paul, Jean on Despair
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"Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners."

Shakespeare, William on Will and Will Power
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"There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons."

Waitley, Denis on Failure
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"If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere."

Ziglar, Zig on Friends and Friendship
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