"There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude. If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped."

Kottler, Jeffrey on Solitude
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"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

Huxley, Aldous on Music
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"Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow."

Dach, Simon on Friends and Friendship
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"The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble."

Barrie, Sir James M. on Praise
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"Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow."

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie on Courage
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"Courage comes from wanting to do it well. Security comes from knowing you can do it well. Confidence comes from having done it well."

Unknown, Source on Confidence
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"The nearest to perfection that most people come is when filling out an employment application."

Unknown, Source on Perfection
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"When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity."

Eliot, George on Death and Dying
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"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."

Lincoln, Abraham on The future
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"The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store."

Hubbard, Kin on Home
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"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on Life and Living
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"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."

L'Amour, Louis on Beginning
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"One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared."

Olsen, Merlin on Preparation
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"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going."

Tracy, Brian on Failure
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"Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on Pleasure
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"The real truth is that while He came to preach the gospel, His chief object in coming was that there might be a gospel to preach."

Dale, R. W. on Gospel
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"We have a presidential election coming up. And I think the big problem, of course, is that someone will win."

Crimmins, Barry on Elections
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"About the only thing that comes without effort is old age.."

Unknown, Source on Effort
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"I believe that good things come to those who work."

Chamberlain, Wilt on Work
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"I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat."

Landry, Tom on Defeat
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"God gave burdens, also shoulders."

Proverb, Yiddish on Burdens
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"If I have seen further... it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

Newton, Sir Isaac on Vision
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"The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back."

Unknown, Source on Kindness
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"You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together."

Ford, Henry on Responsibility
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"It's tough trying to keep your feet on the ground, your head above the clouds, your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your finger on the pulse, your eye on the ball and your ear to the ground."

Proverb on Concentration
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"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."

Stamp, Sir Josiah on Consequences
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Burke, Edmund on Evil
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"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."

Whitton, Charlotte on Ability
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"The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it."

Voltaire on Character
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"I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden."

Augustine, St. on Burdens
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"Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying."

Herrick, Robert on Beauty
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"Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. [Colossians 4:6]"

Bible on Speech
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"When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself."

Cayce, Edgar on Preparation
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"Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well."

Wooden, John on Success
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"January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Seasons
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"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment."

Woodman, Cousin on Experience
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"Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse."

Carswell, James on Nature
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