"There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them."

Frost, Robert on Fear
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"It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Government
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"No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Goals
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"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Amusement
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"No wind favors him who has no destined port."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Goals
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"Ambition is not a vice of little people."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Ambition
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"Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Girls
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"If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Friends and Friendship
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"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Fools and Foolishness
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"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Fear
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"Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Acceptance
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"Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Adversity
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"And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope."

Frost, Robert on Failure
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"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

Frost, Robert on Epitaphs
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"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

Frost, Robert on Education
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"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."

Frost, Robert on Education
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"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."

Frost, Robert on Acceptance
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"The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Affection
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"We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Age and Aging
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"A man is a god in ruins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Adversity
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Adversity
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"I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Fear
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"The thing I fear most is fear."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Fear
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"The best way out of a difficulty is through it."

Frost, Robert on Difficulties
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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Age and Aging
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"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Defeat
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"But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Dreams
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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Education
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"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk -- they are all part of the curriculum."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Education
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"Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Example
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"All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Fame
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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."

Aurelius, Marcus on Happiness
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"Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours."

Aurelius, Marcus on Goodness
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"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already."

Aurelius, Marcus on Fulfillment
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"Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain."

Aurelius, Marcus on Focus
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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

Aurelius, Marcus on Fear
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"Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life."

Aurelius, Marcus on Happiness
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"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."

Aurelius, Marcus on Injury
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

Aurelius, Marcus on Integrity
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"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."

Aurelius, Marcus on Integrity
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