"Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe."

Augustine, St. on faith
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"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

Fleming, Ian on time
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"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft."

Roosevelt, Theodore on strength
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"He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave."

Drummond, William on reason
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"If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on writers and writing   

"We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later."

Aragon, Louis on genius
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"Wisdom comes by disillusionment."

Santayana, George on wisdom
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"Music is essentially useless, as life is."

Santayana, George on music
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"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness."

Santayana, George on happiness
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"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field."

Bohr, Niels on experts
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"Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing."

Aesop on originality
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"Where there is love there is life."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up."

Irons, Jeremy on acting and actors
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"Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning."

Burroughs, William S. on virtue
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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

Confucius on beauty
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"So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin."

Stone, W. Clement on action
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"Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job."

Randall, Erwin T. on friends and friendship   

"Of all that Orient lands can vaunt, of marvels with our own competing, the strangest is the Haschish plant, and what will follow on its eating."

Whittier, John Greenleaf on drugs   

"It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this."

Herzen, Alexander on ideology   

"High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium."

Kundera, Milan on culture   

"Let the path be open to talent."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on direction
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"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on strategies
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"Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels."

Buck, Pearl S. on nature   

"The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools."

Confucius on diligence
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"The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions."

Confucius on action
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"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible."

Saying, Traditional on belief
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"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."

Frost, Robert on poetry and poets
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"Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense."

Frost, Robert on nonsense
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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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"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity."

Carlyle, Thomas on sincerity
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"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand."

Carlyle, Thomas on present   

"Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others."

Carlyle, Thomas on potential
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"When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."

Confucius on character
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"To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things"

Confucius on character
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"Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change."

Confucius on change
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"To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right."

Confucius on change
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"Poetry is what is lost in translation."

Frost, Robert on poetry and poets
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"The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on uncategorised
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"A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little personal characteristics."

Rowland, Helen on faults   

"People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable."

Goldsmith, Oliver on desire