"By others faults the wise correct their own."

Proverb on wisdom   

"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."

Irving, Washington on love
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"Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?"

Keats, John on fame
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"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on chastity   

"It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them."

Storr, Anthony on relationship
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"To him who is in fear everything rustles."

Sophocles on fear   

"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."

Adams, Henry Brooks on inferiority
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"They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance."

Burke, Edmund on obstinacy
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"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last."

Churchill, Winston on compromise
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"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."

Rohn, Jim on hope
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"You are only what you are when no one is looking."

Edwards, Robert C. on appearance
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"Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on sorrow   

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."

Shaw, George Bernard on quotations
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"There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery."

Conrad, Joseph on moon
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"Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness --"

Dickinson, Emily on madness
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"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."

Perls, Fritz Dr. on expectation
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"He preaches well that lives well."

Cervantes, Miguel De on preachers and preaching   

"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity."

Shaw, George Bernard on indifference
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"An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded."

Pope, Alexander on excuses
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"Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law."

Buddha on hatred
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"The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.."

Allen, Woody on marriage
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"So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand."

Townsend, Peter on plagiarism   

"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."

Austen, Jane on women
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"If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death."

Butler, Samuel on death   

"Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends."

Adams, Dawn on books - reading
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"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."

Ford, Henry on problems
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"Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career."

Carnegie, Dale on criticism
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"He has committed the crime who profits by it."

Seneca on crime and criminals
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"Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."

Hammarskjold, Dag on possibilities
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"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

Confucius on respectability
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"Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great."

Thomas, Dylan on intelligence and intellectuals   

"Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly."

Euripides on dress
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"If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now."

Osmond, Marie on past
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"It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on adversity
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"All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone."

La Bruyere, Jean De on happiness
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"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Gibran, Kahlil on suffering
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"Great intellects are skeptical."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on skepticism
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"Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life."

Lamb, Charles on pain
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"He is not the same, nor is he another."

Buddha on spirituality
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"She [Eleanor Roosevelt] got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them."

McGill, Ralph on revenge
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