"I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on speakers and speaking   

"The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity."

Twain, Mark on joy
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"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

Twain, Mark on gratitude
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"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."

Twain, Mark on health
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"The way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."

Twain, Mark on health
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"When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."

Twain, Mark on insanity
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"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."

Caesar, Julius on pain
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"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

Aikman, Leo on action
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"If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?"

Fromm, Erich on possessions
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"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers."

Fromm, Erich on purpose   

"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."

Fromm, Erich on security
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"Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much."

Fromm, Erich on charity
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"Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong."

Beecher, Henry Ward on defeat   

"Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices."

Beecher, Henry Ward on fear
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"See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also."

Beecher, Henry Ward on feelings
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"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -- torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one."

Beecher, Henry Ward on forgiveness
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"Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends."

Beecher, Henry Ward on friends and friendship
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"He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds."

Beecher, Henry Ward on gossip   

"God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses."

Beecher, Henry Ward on grace   

"A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

Beecher, Henry Ward on gratitude
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"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."

Beecher, Henry Ward on hatred
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"An unexamined life is not worth living."

Socrates on   

"The hatred of relatives is the most violent."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on family
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"The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on fame
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"Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on opinions
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"The principal part of faith is patience."

Macdonald, George on faith
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"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."

Kierkegaard, Søren on prayer
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"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

Henderson, Nelson on service
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"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."

Radner, Gilda on life
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"Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof."

Raleigh, Sir Walter on youth
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"If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito."

Walker, Michelle on potential
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils."

Junius on decisions   

"How much easier is it to be generous than just."

Junius on generosity   

"Oppression is more easily endured than insult."

Junius on insults   

"If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on laughter
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"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."

Hepburn, Katharine on rules
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"Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many."

Plato on age and aging   

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

Plato on forgiveness
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