"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on world   

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

Devito, Danny on adversity
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"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on men   

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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice -- is often the means of their regeneration."

Mill, John Stuart on war
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"You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"

Gibran, Kahlil on freedom
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"Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them."

Gibran, Kahlil on age and aging   

"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."

Byron, Lord on sorrow
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"He that plants trees loves others besides himself."

Proverb, English on love
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"The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead."

Schreiner, Olive on injury   

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"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

Buffett, Warren on action
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"Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees."

Malloch, Douglas on growth
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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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"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

Luther, Martin on belief
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"Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Angelou, Maya on nature
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"I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap."

Allen, Fred A. on ancestry
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"The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses."

Ovid on ancestry   

"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on peace
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"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on peace
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"Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion."

Bierce, Ambrose on absurdity
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"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities."

Voltaire on evil
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"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next."

Mill, John Stuart on wisdom
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"Jesus promised His disciples three things: that they would be entirely fearless, absurdly happy, and that they would get into trouble."

Maltby, W. Russell on jesus christ
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"The moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the moon that pulls the tides, and the moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomist. When we describe the moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness."

Lawrence, D. H. on moon
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"There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery."

Conrad, Joseph on moon
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"You're never a loser until you quit trying."

Ditka, Mike on losers and losing
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"We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation."

Lee, Robert E. on losers and losing   

"There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow."

Cicero, Marcus T. on sorrow
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"The desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. [Isaiah 26:8]"

Bible on desire
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"If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory."

Agesilaus II on monuments   

"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe, and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end."

Shakespeare, William on memory
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"The education of a man is never complete until he dies."

Lee, Robert E. on education
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"Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees."

Jackson, Stonewall on famous last words
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"What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on war   

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

Levant, Oscar on insanity
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"Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on insanity
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"Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome."

Proverb, Chinese on insanity
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"You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on insanity   

"In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!"

Ballard, J. G. on madness
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"Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind."

Alger, William R. on proverbs
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"Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod."

Aristophanes on death