"We lie in the lap of immense intelligence."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late"

Franklin, Benjamin on life
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"We derive our vitality from our store of madness."

Cioran, E. M. on vitality
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"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth."

Einstein, Albert on life
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"The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger."

Paul, Jean on fear
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"Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their moneys worth, except for these. "

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"The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on worry
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"You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world."

Hazlitt, William on action
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"It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues."

Swift, Jonathan on virtue   

"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on perseverance
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"Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed"

Drucker, Peter F. on time
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"People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on understanding   

"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."

Jefferson, Thomas on greed
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"Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."

Bierce, Ambrose on prayer
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"Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation."

Farrall, Joseph on happiness
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"Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on thoughts and thinking   

"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."

Augustine, St. on humility
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"For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands."

Rossetti, Christina on family
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"It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."

Greene, Graham on trust
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create."

Vaneigem, Raoul on industry
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"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."

Reagon, Bernice Johnson on challenges
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"There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined."

Twain, Mark on vulgarity
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"Love: The warm feeling that you feel towards someone who satisfies your neurosis. "

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"Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast."

Swindoll, Charles on difficulties
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"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."

Aesop on enemies
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"I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering."

Wright, Steven on mind
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"Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. [Colossians 4:6]"

Bible on speech
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"Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight."

Kundera, Milan on mystics and mysticism   

"Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell."

Dickinson, Emily on farewells
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"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

Einstein, Albert on perseverance
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"We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings."

Einstein, Albert on humankind
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"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."

Einstein, Albert on value
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"God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world."

Einstein, Albert on god
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"A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

Einstein, Albert on humankind
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"The most tortured of all souls is the forlorn and desolate soulmate. "

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"Finite to fail, but infinite to venture."

Dickinson, Emily on boldness
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