"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on present
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"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."

Aristotle on virtue
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"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on politics   

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"If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached."

Martin, Judith on writers and writing   

"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May."

Shakespeare, William on spring   

"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on hatred
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"Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote."

Chesterfield, Lord on books - reading
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"The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."

Maugham, W. Somerset on habit   

"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."

Santayana, George on emotions
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"Justice is incidental to law and order."

Hoover, J. Edgar on justice   

"History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten."

Santayana, George on history and historians
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"Action is eloquence."

Shakespeare, William on action
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"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."

Wilde, Oscar on modern and modernism
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"Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."

Wilde, Oscar on age and aging
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"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."

Wilde, Oscar on consistency
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"To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am."

Buruch, Andre B. on age and aging
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"The best thinking has been done in solitude."

Edison, Thomas A. on solitude
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"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

Epictetus on affirmation
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"We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage."

Churchill, Winston on age and aging
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Words are alive; cut them and they bleed."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on words
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

Wilde, Oscar on criticism
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"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on value
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"The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result."

Wilde, Oscar on nature
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"Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere."

Casals, Pablo on originality