"To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on Genius
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"Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave."

Mizner, Wilson on Egotism
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"If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it."

Epictetus on Critics and Criticism
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"Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker."

Runes, Dagobert D. on Judgment and Judges
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"I dont want to survive. I want to live."

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"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Friends and Friendship
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"Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."

Mandino, Og on Life and Living
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"If someone were to pay you $.10 for every kind word you ever spoke and collect $.05 for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?"

Nonpareil on Kindness
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"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."

Twain, Mark on Words
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"False friends are worse than bitter enemies."

Proverb, Scottish on Enemies
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"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."

Forster, Edward M. on Betrayal
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"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."

Dhammapada on Friends and Friendship
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"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."

Shakespeare, William on Self-respect
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"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Books - Reading
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"Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]"

Bible on Friends and Friendship
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"The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for."

Home, Henry on Friends and Friendship
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"A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."

Penn, William on Friends and Friendship
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"The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on Intelligence and Intellectuals
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"Virtue that wavers is not virtue."

Milton, John on Virtue
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"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

Wooden, John on Character
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"Genius sits in a glass house -- but in an unbreakable one --conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck. (Then come the lovers of art and contemplate the bleeding work from outside. Then come the photographers. New art, it says in the newspaper the following day. The learned journals give it a name that ends in ism.)"

Klee, Paul on Genius
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"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on Adversity
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"There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend."

Hathaway, Katherine on Friends and Friendship
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"Continue to be yourself because in the end that's what people will remember about you"

Unknown, Source on Self-expression
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"To find yourself, think for yourself."

Socrates on Thoughts and Thinking
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"Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on Colleges and Universities
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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on Dreams
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"You said, They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people. -- What, I asked you, is harmless about a dreamer, and what, I asked you, is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams."

Williams, Tennessee on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on Dreams
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"The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal."

Miller, Henry on Dreams
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"Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love"

Turner, Rev. Dale on Love
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"Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word."

Roux, Joseph on Conversation
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"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight."

Hansen, Mark Victor on Achievement
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"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."

Baldwin, James on Education
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"We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men."

Eliot, George on Women
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"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers."

Burroughs, William S. on America
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

Twain, Mark on Forgiveness
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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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"I'm a romantic -- a sentimental person thinks things will last -- a romantic person hopes against hope that they won t."

Unknown, Source on Romance and Romanticism
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"Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God."

Angelou, Maya on Children
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