"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."

Einstein, Albert on solitude
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"In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself."

Sterne, Laurence on solitude
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"In solitude, where we are least alone."

Byron, Lord on solitude
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"If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right."

Renard, Jules on solitude
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"As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on creeds   

"There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer."

Forster, Edward M. on creeds   

"The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy."

Knox, Ronald on humor   

"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."

Eliot, George on humor
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"The less you talk, the more you're listened to."

Buren, Abigail Van on listening
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"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back."

Buren, Abigail Van on character
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"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes."

Buren, Abigail Van on fights and fighting
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"To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student."

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar on teacher
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"Begin to weave and God will give the thread."

Proverb, German on procrastination
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"The only journey is the one within."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on success
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"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it."

Cocteau, Jean on music
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"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on present
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"Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it."

Rayburn, Sam on criticism   

"Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel."

Luther, Martin on churches
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"The fog is rising."

Dickinson, Emily on famous last words
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"Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed."

Churchill, Winston on security
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"Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. "

Thucydides on uncategorised   

"The secret of freedom, courage."

Thucydides on freedom
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"Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved."

Thucydides on ignorance
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"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star."

Confucius on ignorance
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"Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?"

Confucius on love
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"The real fault is to have faults and not amend them."

Confucius on faults
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"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."

Confucius on failure
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"There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest."

Confucius on wisdom
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"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on control
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"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on promises
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"The human race is governed by its imagination."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on imagination   

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"A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on respectability   

"In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on politics   

"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on greatness   

"A true man hates no one."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on men
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"It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on art
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"Ability is of little account without opportunity."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on ability
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"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on glory
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"Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away."

Charles V on fortune   

"Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance."

Sagan, Francoise on jazz