"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame."

Wilde, Oscar on books - reading
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"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

Churchill, Winston on solitude
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"Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you."

Rogers, Roy on farewells   

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."

Tolkien, J. R. on farewells
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"We only part to meet again."

Gay, John on farewells
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"The next chapter of my life is always more interesting than the last one. "

Lipsey, Michael on life
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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

Levant, Oscar on insanity
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"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on insanity
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"There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity."

White, William Allen on insanity
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"Insanity destroys reason, but not wit."

Emmons, Nathaniel on insanity
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"Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat."

Dickinson, Emily on anger
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"An old young man, will be a young old man."

Franklin, Benjamin on age and aging
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"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse."

Franklin, Benjamin on discontent
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"God heals and the doctor takes the fee."

Franklin, Benjamin on doctors
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep."

Byron, Lord on faith
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"Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon -- the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it."

Byron, Lord on excuses   

"I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts."

Byron, Lord on dissent
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"Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."

Lewis, C. S. on humankind
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"Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough."

Marx, Groucho on age and aging
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"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. "

Marx, Groucho on
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"All farewells should be sudden, when forever."

Byron, Lord on farewells
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"But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric -- and pure invention is but the talent of a liar."

Byron, Lord on fiction   

"There is no instinct like that of the heart."

Byron, Lord on intuition
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"Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim."

Byron, Lord on life   

"And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade."

Byron, Lord on lies and lying
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"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear."

Byron, Lord on inheritance
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"The heart will break, but broken live on."

Byron, Lord on art
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"To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin."

Byron, Lord on happiness
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"A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands."

Byron, Lord on food and eating   

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

Aristotle on discipline
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"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself."

James, Henry on judgment and judges
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"That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light."

Pike, Albert on adversity
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"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

Pike, Albert on service
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"If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work."

Nash, Ogden on work   

"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all."

Nash, Ogden on science
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