"Danger and delight grow on one stalk."

Proverb, Scottish on anger   

"What the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others."

Confucius on superiority
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"Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?"

Rosen, Richard D. on truth
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"Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely."

Hubbard, Kin on appearance
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"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed."

Washington, Booker T. on success
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"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything. "

Wilde, Oscar on uncategorised   

"Applause is a receipt, not a bill."

Schnabel, Artur on applause   

"We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."

Williams, Tennessee on loneliness
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"We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger."

Corneille, Pierre on anger
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"He has hard work who has nothing to do."

Proverb on leisure
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"Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything."

Johnson, Samuel on identity
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"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

Swift, Jonathan on genius
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"There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors."

Morrison, Jim on knowledge
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"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

Mencken, H. L. on puritans
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"The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence."

Musonnius on silence
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"It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor."

Eliot, T. S. on tradition   

"The wise person has long ears and a short tongue."

Proverb, German on wisdom
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"A merciful person is merciful to their animals."

Bible on mercy   

"He does not weep who does not see."

Hugo, Victor on cries and crying
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"If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on management
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"Choose your wife as you wish your children to be."

Proverb on marriage
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"I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep."

Beaumarchais, Pierre De on laughter   

"The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws."

Gourmont, Remy De on criticism   

"Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium."

Connolly, Cyril on crime and criminals
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"I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job."

Goldwyn, Samuel on truth   

"You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins."

West, Mae on dress
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"To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher."

Pascal, Blaise on philosophers and philosophy
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"Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't --it's human."

Erasmus, Desiderius on nature
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"Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak. "

Homer on uncategorised   

"I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong."

Richards, Ann on potential   

"The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on greatness
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"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."

Wilde, Oscar on literature
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"'Tis after death that we measure men."

Hope, James Barron on death   

"Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are."

Wilde, Oscar on interviews
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"Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me."

Whitman, Walt on control   

"Anger rest in the bosom of fools."

Bible on anger   

"Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on simplicity
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"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes."

Picasso, Pablo on vision
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"The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces."

France, Anatole on criticism   

"Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence."

Kennedy, Robert F. on courage
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