"Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius."

Disraeli, Benjamin on genius
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"Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."

Disraeli, Benjamin on frankness
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"Despair is the conclusion of fools."

Disraeli, Benjamin on doubt
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"The best work never was and never will be done for money."

Ruskin, John on work
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"To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed -- That can make life a garden."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on understanding
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"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

Carnegie, Dale on fear
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"Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind."

Godospeed, Edgar on friends and friendship
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"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."

Digest, Readers on friends and friendship
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"That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience."

Bukowski, Charles on friends and friendship
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"Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?"

Carnegie, Dale on worry
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"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on worry   

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!"

Sheehy, Gail on change
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"Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies."

Kennedy, Robert F. on change
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"Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change."

Jackson, Jesse on change
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"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."

Frost, Robert on change
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"A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."

Burke, Edmund on change
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"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

Baldwin, James on change
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"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing."

Astor, Lady Nancy on change
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"Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."

Voltaire on certainty
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"What men want is not knowledge, but certainty."

Russell, Bertrand on certainty   

"To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous."

Proverb, Chinese on certainty
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"He suffered from paralysis by analysis."

Saying on analysis
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"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."

Durant, William J. on certainty
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"We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are."

Depree, Max on change
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"Imagination rules the world."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on imagination
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"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."

West, Mae on evil
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"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone."

Pascal, Blaise on evil
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"It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine."

Darwin, Charles R. on evil   

"All evils are equal when they are extreme."

Corneille, Pierre on evil   

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Burke, Edmund on evil
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"Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table."

Auden, W. H. on evil
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"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds."

Thoreau, Henry David on eccentricity
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"Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact."

Wilde, Oscar on conversation
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"Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."

Shakespeare, William on conversation
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"The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose."

Franklin, Benjamin on conversation
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"Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her -- when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?"

Rowland, Helen on flirting
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"A good friend is my nearest relation."

Fuller, Thomas on friends and friendship   

"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."

Howe, Edgar Watson on friends and friendship   

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

Lewis, C. S. on friends and friendship
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"Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

Bach, Richard on friends and friendship
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