"Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on opportunity
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"Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance."

Wilde, Oscar on romance and romanticism
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"To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance."

Wilde, Oscar on romance and romanticism
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"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again."

Shakespeare, William on dream
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"A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on."

Watt, James on lies and lying
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"Talent borrows, genius steals"

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"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

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"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes."

Wilde, Oscar on compliments
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"The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat."

Wilde, Oscar on ugliness
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"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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"I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments."

Wilde, Oscar on talkativeness
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"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

Aristotle on equality
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"All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."

Twain, Mark on duty
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"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."

Twain, Mark on dissent
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"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on love
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"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."

Aristotle on love
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"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."

Balzac, Honore De on love
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"Love is the fulfilling of the Law."

Bible on love
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on excellence
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"Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy."

Aristotle on anger
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"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities."

Aristotle on possibilities
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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."

Twain, Mark on desire
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"It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death."

Twain, Mark on despair
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"The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much."

Barr, Amelia E. on love
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