"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious."

Horace on people
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"Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week."

Howells, William Dean on people   

"The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man."

Hunt, Leigh on people   

"All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They."

Kipling, Rudyard on people   

"A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on people   

"There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on people
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"In each of us there is a little of all of us."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on people
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"I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them."

Maugham, W. Somerset on people   

"When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere."

Orlan, Mac on people   

"That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself."

Ovid on people   

"There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy."

Pascal, Blaise on people
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"There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don't know what's happening."

Proverb, American on people
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"We are the people our parents warned us about."

Unknown, Source on people   

"There are two kinds of people; those who can count and those who can't."

Unknown, Source on people   

"There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, There you are and those who say, Here I am"

Van Buren, Abigail on people   

"We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on people
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"To live happily is an inward power of the soul."

Aurelius, Marcus on soul
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"What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul"

Bible on soul
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"The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love."

Carlyle, Thomas on soul   

"It is only to the individual that a soul is given."

Einstein, Albert on soul   

"Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one."

Halm, Fredrich on soul
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"The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on."

Holland, Josiah Gilbert on soul
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"Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish"

La Fontaine, Jean De on soul
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"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."

Macarthur, Douglas on soul
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"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul."

Macarthur, Douglas on soul   

"The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves."

Proverb on soul
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"A little body often harbors a great soul."

Proverb on soul
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"Great souls endure in silence."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on soul
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"What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on soul   

"From the looks not the lips the soul speaks."

Unknown, Source on soul   

"I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three."

Unknown, Source on soul   

"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul."

Weil, Simone on soul   

"A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve."

Guiness, Sir Alec on motives   

"To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text."

James, Henry on motives
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"We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on motives   

"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."

Wilde, Oscar on motives
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"The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others."

Aesop on misfortunes
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"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."

Austen, Jane on misfortunes
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"An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws."

Bierce, Ambrose on misfortunes   

"We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance."

Aesop on mind
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