"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."

Horace on adversity
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"Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn."

Vidal, Gore on style
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"The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use."

Irving, Washington on communication
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"Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time."

Chilo on honesty
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"When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet."

Isenberg, Michael on common sense   

"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these."

Harvey, Paul on memory
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"I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist."

Harvey, Paul on pessimism
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"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on friends and friendship
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"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

Cohen, Leonard on hope
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"Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone."

Tillich, Paul on loneliness
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"I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on quotations   

"No one wants advice, only corroboration."

Steinbeck, John on advice
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"Unavailability is the greatest aphrodisiac"

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"Before you know something, you don't know it."

Carole Lewis Ph.E on knowledge   

"The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come."

Hazlitt, William on expectation
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"Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist."

Ben-Gurion, David on miracles
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"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

Hill, Napoleon on adversity
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"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."

Hill, Napoleon on excellence
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"The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does."

Hill, Napoleon on extra mile
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"A goal is a dream with a deadline."

Hill, Napoleon on goals
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"The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die."

Rogers, Will on heroes and heroism   

"Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth."

Rogers, Will on heroes and heroism   

"We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."

Rogers, Will on heroes and heroism
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"It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human."

Rogers, Will on humankind
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"Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects."

Rogers, Will on ignorance
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"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."

Rogers, Will on humor
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"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."

Rogers, Will on action
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"I desire no future that will break the ties with the past."

Eliot, George on the future
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"All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation."

Eliot, George on meaning
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"There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life."

Eliot, George on privacy   

"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."

Eliot, George on conquest   

"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."

Eliot, George on death
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"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on life
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"No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on temptation   

"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle."

Lowell, James Russell on adversity
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"Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on experience
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"Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on fashion   

"An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on writers and writing   

"The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on tact and tactfulness
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"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

Eliot, George on despair
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