"The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."

Bradley, Francis H. on fear
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"Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O. When may it suffice?"

Yeats, William Butler on sacrifice
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"Language is a virus from outer space."

Burroughs, William S. on language
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"Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on present   

"I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could."

Welles, Orson on behavior
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"All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin."

Byron, Lord on giving
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"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."

Apollinaire, Guillaume on happiness
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"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

Aurelius, Marcus on thoughts and thinking
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"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."

Faulkner, William on writers and writing
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"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

Faulkner, William on action
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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on solitude
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"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead."

Proverb, Chinese on criticism
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"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first."

Leach, Reggie on enthusiasm
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"Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful."

Beckett, Samuel on inertia   

"Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life."

Lamb, Charles on pain
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"There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves."

Junius on persuasion   

"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."

Shakespeare, William on sin