"Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible."

Mooneyham, Stan on love
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"One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it."

Rostand, Jean on theory   

"Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy."

Wilde, Oscar on dictators and dictatorship
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"When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?"

Ball, John on inequality   

"Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another."

Mencken, H. L. on love   

"Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life."

Woolf, Virginia on sleep   

"Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed."

Tuchman, Barbara on evolution   

"O Lord, how many read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred."

Unknown, Source on deeds and good deeds
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"My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them."

Landor, Walter Savage on thoughts and thinking   

"An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it."

Bresson, Robert on novelty
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"Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience."

Bierce, Ambrose on debt   

"Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will."

Bakunin, Mikhail on ideals and idealism   

"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on ignorance   

"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."

Camus, Albert on respectability
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"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."

Burke, Edmund on doubt
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"A wise traveler never depreciates their own country."

Goldoni, Carlo on travel   

"Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits."

Sontag, Susan on depression
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"I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens."

Woolf, Virginia on innocence
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"We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race."

Twain, Mark on success
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"There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most."

Sarton, May on giving   

"Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants."

Plato on ancestry   

"We are free to yield to truth."

Horace on freedom   

"Yearn to understand first and to be understood second."

Lewis, Beca on understanding
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"A yawn is a silent shout."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on bores and boredom
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"There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures."

Penn, William on friends and friendship
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"Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation."

Denham, Sir John on translation   

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."

Eliot, George on facts
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"She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won."

Shakespeare, William on seduction
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"Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles."

Carlyle, Thomas on history and historians   

"When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels."

Goodman, Paul on town and country   

"Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly."

Davies, Sir John on zeal
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"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."

Mann, Horace on education   

"The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on temptation   

"Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith."

Carlyle, Thomas on love
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"Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?"

Unknown, Source on words   

"If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power."

Hazlitt, William on power   

"Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best."

Firnstahl, Timothy on delegation   

"Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God."

Beecher, Henry Ward on zest
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"I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing."

Goldsmith, Oliver on zeal
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"The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire."

Stowe, Harriet Beecher on rebellion