"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."

Cowper, William on absence
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"Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long."

Luther, Martin on fools and foolishness
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"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you."

Arthur, William on courage
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"Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ."

Luther, Martin on faith
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"We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree."

Casals, Pablo on humankind
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"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on love
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"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."

Gibran, Kahlil on forgiveness
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"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."

Allen, Woody on illusion
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"A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice."

Cosby, Bill on advice
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"No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal."

Cosby, Bill on parents and parenting
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"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

Cosby, Bill on success
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"The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

Shaw, George Bernard on debt
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"I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."

Allen, Woody on death
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"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never remember where they left things."

Allen, Woody on science
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"Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime."

Allen, Woody on punishment
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."

Allen, Woody on immortality
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"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

Twain, Mark on knowledge
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"Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon."

Twain, Mark on preachers and preaching
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"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

Disney, Walt on failure
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"If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is."

Dyer, Wayne on enlightenment
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"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."

Dyer, Wayne on judgment and judges
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"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

Disney, Walt on courage
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"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you."

Dyer, Wayne on love
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"Sometimes too much drink is barely enough."

Twain, Mark on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy."

Twain, Mark on forgiveness
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