"To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on insanity
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"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

Beckett, Samuel on failure
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"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Gibran, Kahlil on suffering
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"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?"

Gibran, Kahlil on potential
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"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

Gibran, Kahlil on nature
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"The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities."

Gibran, Kahlil on greatness
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"One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night."

Gibran, Kahlil on adversity
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"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box."

Proverb, Italian on death
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"Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part."

Pope, Alexander on death
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"Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying."

Luther, Martin on death
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"Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!"

Luther, Martin on courage   

"Christians are rare people on earth."

Luther, Martin on christians and christianity
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"The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing."

Luther, Martin on books - reading   

"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave."

Luther, Martin on marriage
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"I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?"

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on death
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"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

Sachs, A. on death
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"The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. [Hamlet]"

Shakespeare, William on death
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"I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!"

Augustine, St. on beauty   

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

Augustine, St. on prayer
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"Love is the beauty of the soul."

Augustine, St. on love
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"If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend."

Augustine, St. on friends and friendship
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"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 am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood."

Torrey, R. A. on death
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"The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows."

Socrates on death
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"The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!"

Selfridge, H. Gordon on leadership
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"The devil is God's ape!"

Luther, Martin on evil
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"An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects."

Luther, Martin on equality
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"Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ."

Luther, Martin on faith
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"Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long."

Luther, Martin on fools and foolishness
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"I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen."

Luther, Martin on integrity
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"If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there."

Luther, Martin on laughter
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"How soon not now, becomes never."

Luther, Martin on procrastination
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"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."

Disney, Walt on books - reading
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"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known."

Disney, Walt on love   

"If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed."

Francis of Assisi, St. on science   

"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself."

Mencken, H. L. on philosophers and philosophy
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"What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind."

Berkeley, George on philosophers and philosophy
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"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."

Bierce, Ambrose on philosophers and philosophy
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"Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face."

Francis of Assisi, St. on integrity
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