"No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."

King Jr. Martin Luther on action
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"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires."

Khayyam, Omar on solitude
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"There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see."

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"Life is a puzzle"

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"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

Confucius on complaints and complaining
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"Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

Confucius on work
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"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

Confucius on wisdom
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"Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it."

Confucius on vice
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"Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous."

Confucius on thoughts and thinking
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"If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people."

Confucius on teacher
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"The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions."

Confucius on action
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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

Confucius on beauty
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"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."

Franklin, Benjamin on time
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"They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent."

Franklin, Benjamin on vigilance
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"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse."

Franklin, Benjamin on absence
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"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody."

Franklin, Benjamin on contentment
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"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."

Franklin, Benjamin on death
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"We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness."

Franklin, Benjamin on taxes and taxation
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"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

Addison, Joseph on happiness
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"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles."

Franklin, Benjamin on advice
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"The discontented man finds no easy chair."

Franklin, Benjamin on discontent
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"No nation was ever ruined by trade."

Franklin, Benjamin on economy and economics
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"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

Franklin, Benjamin on education
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"Well done, is better than well said."

Franklin, Benjamin on example
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"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."

Franklin, Benjamin on excuses
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"The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands."

Franklin, Benjamin on eyes
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"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."

Franklin, Benjamin on faith
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"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."

Franklin, Benjamin on fame
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"There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry."

Franklin, Benjamin on farming and farmers
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"The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor."

Franklin, Benjamin on fools and foolishness
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"Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement."

Franklin, Benjamin on friends and friendship
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"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade."

Franklin, Benjamin on genius
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"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion."

Franklin, Benjamin on government
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"Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life."

Franklin, Benjamin on happiness
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"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward."

Hemingway, Ernest on depression
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"Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits."

Sontag, Susan on depression
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"Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged."

Alcott, Louisa May on happiness
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"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change."

Angelis, Barbara De on happiness
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"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."

Apollinaire, Guillaume on happiness
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"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."

Barthel, Mildred on happiness
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