"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals."

Trevelyan, G. M. on books - reading
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"Revolutions are not made, they come."

Phillips, Wendell on evolution   

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"To err is human; to admit it, superhuman."

Larson, Doug on mistakes
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"There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it."

Seneca on gratitude
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"Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm."

Proverb on correction   

"It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love."

Voltaire on love
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"Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on candor
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"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough."

Eckhart, Meister on prayer
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"Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom."

Kraus, Karl on marriage
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"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."

Eliot, George on jealousy   

"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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"Valor is common but great souls are rare."

Saurin, Bernard Joseph on valor   

"I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain."

Wagner, Jane on complaints and complaining
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"He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest."

Benjamin, Walter on etiquette   

"To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first."

Shakespeare, William on success   

"Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still."

Carnegie, Dale on power
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"Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage."

Disraeli, Benjamin on opportunity
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"Some evils are cured by contempt."

Proverb on hatred   

"As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason."

Browne, Sir Thomas on reason
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"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

Confucius on self-control
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"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all."

Nash, Ogden on science
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"If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself."

Horace on tears
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"He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor."

Johnson, Samuel on neglect   

"Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never."

Camus, Albert on art   

"A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love."

Proust, Marcel on infidelity   

"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly."

Bacall, Lauren on imagination   

"I love the name of honor, more than I fear death."

Caesar, Julius on honor
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"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."

Colby, Frank Moore on anger
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"It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows."

Saying on speakers and speaking
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"We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments."

Wilde, Oscar on prison   

"Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent."

Picabia, Francis on indifference
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"The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand."

Allen, Fred A. on pride
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"Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."

Brown, Les on opinions
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"A burnt child dreads the fire."

Proverb, English on experience
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"The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset."

Jefferson, Thomas on pain
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"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on laughter
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"Inside every man there is a poet who died young."

Kanfer, Stephan on poetry and poets
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"A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace."

Gersonides on peace
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"Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."

Eliot, George on animals
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"The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins."

Broun, Heywood on life
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