"Remorse is the pain of sin."

Parker, Theodore on remorse   

"There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse."

Seneca on punishment   

"In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on science   

"We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen."

Rainer, Maria Rilke on opportunity   

"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

Roosevelt, Theodore on decisions
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"Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts."

Baruch, Bernard M. on opinions
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"Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours."

Updike, John on debt   

"Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?"

Updike, John on atheism   

"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."

Updike, John on custom   

"No man is free who is not a master of himself."

Epictetus on freedom
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"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse."

Epictetus on life
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"Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth."

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth on death
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"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy."

Updike, John on america   

"Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives."

Bhagavad Gita on passion
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"You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled."

Tahanie on society   

"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day."

Dalai Lama on friends and friendship
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"Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors."

Alcott, Louisa May on education
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"If nobody dropped out of eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates?"

Unknown, Source on education
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"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."

Lerner, Max on evil
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"All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself."

Swift, Graham on sex   

"Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art."

Bailey, Philip James on nature
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"Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature."

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley on pity
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"Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit."

Unknown, Source on mind
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"You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better -- the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read."

Lewis, C. S. on fools and foolishness
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"Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind."

Lewis, C. S. on heaven
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"Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."

Lewis, C. S. on humankind
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"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep."

Beaumont, Francis on death
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"But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."

Frost, Robert on promises
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"No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on minorities
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"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

Einstein, Albert on common sense
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"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."

Cushing, Richard C. on appearance
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"Birds have bills too, and they keep on singing"

Unknown, Source on debt
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
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"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on books - reading
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"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that."

Mccosh on books - reading
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"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

Winfrey, Oprah on friends and friendship
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"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be never so vile. This day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."

Shakespeare, William on army and navy
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"When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen."

Washington, George on army and navy
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"I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on america
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"Only Americans can hurt America."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on america
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