"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

Bacon, Francis on friends and friendship
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"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."

Bacon, Francis on forgiveness
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"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

Phillpotts, Eden on abundance
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"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."

Baldwin, James on writers and writing
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"The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on tact and tactfulness
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"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."

Lincoln, Abraham on tact and tactfulness
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"Disease is not of the body but of the place."

Seneca on disease   

"Self-command is the main discipline."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on discipline
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"The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on disasters
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"Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on destiny
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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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"Everything starts as somebody's day dream."

Niven, Larry on dream
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"Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life -- after that you cannot be deceived."

Saying, Zen on zen
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"With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses."

Sontag, Susan on disease   

"A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion."

Cicero, Marcus T. on power   

"Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will."

Cousins, Norman on power
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"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

Gandhi, Mahatma on power
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"Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on power
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"People do not lack strength; they lack will."

Hugo, Victor on power
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"Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest."

Lincoln, Abraham on power
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"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."

Connolly, Cyril on writers and writing
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"For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word."

Bowen, Catherine Drinker on writers and writing
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"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain."

Byron, Lord on writers and writing
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"Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations."

Baldwin, James on freedom   

"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage."

Barton, Bruce on freedom   

"Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like."

Benn, Ernest on freedom
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"Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus."

Bevan, Aneurin on freedom
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"The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought."

Blum, Leon on freedom
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"Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree."

Tagore, Rabindranath on freedom
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"Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do."

Collingwood, Robin G. on freedom   

"Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed."

Colton, Charles Caleb on freedom
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"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."

Cooley, Charles Horton on freedom   

"People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society."

Covey, Stephen R. on freedom
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"The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy."

Hegel, Georg on freedom   

"When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."

Hamilton, Edith on freedom
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"Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it"

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on freedom
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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."

Gandhi, Mahatma on freedom
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"Freedom is just chaos with better lighting."

Foster, Alan Dean on freedom
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"Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on freedom   

"No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason."

Diderot, Denis on freedom