"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

Burton, Sir Richard on Friends and Friendship
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"Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read."

Unknown, Source on Books - Reading
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."

Adams, John on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence."

Weil, Simone on Mathematics
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"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."

Einstein, Albert on Intelligence and Intellectuals
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."

Thoreau, Henry David on Purpose
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"Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude."

Riley, Pat on Attitude
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"Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both."

Edwards, Tryon on Choice
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"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way."

Lewis, C. S. on Dedication
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"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on Music
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"Greatness is a spiritual condition."

Arnold, Matthew on Greatness
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"The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one."

Peck, M. Scott on Learning
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"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."

Lois, George on Creativity
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on Dreams
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"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

Nin, Anais on Attitude
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"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."

Hayes, Helen on Achievement
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"Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive."

Ellis, Havelock on Jealousy
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"The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment."

Addison, Joseph on Jealousy
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"The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros."

Antrim, Minna on Jealousy
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"Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing."

Goldman, Emma on Jealousy
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"In jealousy there is more of self-love than love."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on Jealousy
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"The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on Jealousy
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"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."

Sagan, Francoise on Jealousy
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"Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision."

Unknown, Source on Jealousy
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"Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on Jealousy
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"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?"

Moore, George on Reality
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on Fools and Foolishness
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"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."

Smith, Sydney on Friends and Friendship
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"Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates."

Bruyere, Jean De La on Grief
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"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

Jung, Carl on Happiness
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"Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man."

Powell, Robert on Life and Living
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"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Power
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"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."

Shan, Merle on Love
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"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on Hatred
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"In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

Byron, Lord on Passion
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"Gratitude is a twofold love -- love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest."

Dyke, Henry Van on Gratitude
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"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on Love
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"Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture."

Russell, Bertrand on Mathematics
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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."

Ruskin, John on Music
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"Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk."

Wilde, Oscar on Music
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