"Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild."

Delp, Alexis on love
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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius on failure
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"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

Epictetus on power
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"Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on death
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"If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place."

Schumann, Robert on music   

"Music is only love looking for words."

Durrell, Lawrence on music
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"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on courage
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"What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you."

Dyer, Wayne on anger
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"It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd."

Miller, Henry on democracy
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"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."

Shakespeare, William on war
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"Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion."

Rogers, Will on opinions
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"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him."

Gaulle, Charles De on politics
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"You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that's a disgrace."

Cooke, E. V. on failure
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"We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise."

Hands, Terry on morality   

"Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

Vidal, Gore on voting
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"The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it."

Greeley, Horace on money   

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
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"From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."

Belloc, Hilaire on friends and friendship
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"Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them-and then you destroy yourself."

Nixon, Richard M. on hatred
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"Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on belief
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"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]"

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on cooperation
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"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."

Waugh, Evelyn on punctuality
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"Clean your finger before you point at my spots."

Franklin, Benjamin on hypocrisy
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"This is all the Inheritance I can give to my dear Family. The Religion of Christ can give them one which will make them rich indeed. "

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"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence."

Poe, Edgar Allan on self-confidence
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"True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance."

Van Buren, Abigail on learning   

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

Barrymore, John on dream
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"Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition."

Pepys, Samuel on marriage   

"Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it."

Prentice, George D. on debt   

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

Faulkner, William on failure
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"The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen."

Lacordaire, Jean Baptiste on affection
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"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15."

Reagan, Ronald on politics
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"The two best physicians of them all -- Dr. Laughter and Dr. Sleep."

Dean Jr., Gregory on physicians
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"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."

Wooden, John on mistakes
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"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."

Berle, Milton on committees and meetings
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"The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."

Mansfield, Katherine on books - reading
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"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

Lee, Harper on courage
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"Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good."

Schwarzkopf, Norman on leadership
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