"The silent dog is the first to bite."

Proverb on silence
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"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt."

Heller, Joseph on immortality   

"Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time."

Carlyle, Thomas on silence
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"What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time."

Katz, Jonathan on silence   

"Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart."

Mcginley, Phyllis on silence
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"Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it."

Proverb, Russian on happiness
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"Silence implies consent."

Proverb on silence
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"The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion."

Proverb, Arabian on silence
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"Still waters run deep."

Proverb, English on silence
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"The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it."

Twain, Mark on silence
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"But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract."

Lincoln, Abraham on soldier
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"It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats."

Proverb, Russian on motivation   

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

Epictetus on power
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"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

Epictetus on attitude
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"Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen."

Epictetus on opinions
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"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live."

Aurelius, Marcus on life
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"I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids -- and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."

Ellison, Ralph on outcasts
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"Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist --a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist --only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression."

Cioran, E. M. on pessimism
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"I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth."

Garofalo, Janeane on pessimism
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"The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced."

Repplier, Agnes on pessimism   

"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself."

Shaw, George Bernard on pessimism   

"A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development."

Repplier, Agnes on villains   

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."

Berlioz, Hector Louis on time
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"Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances."

Adams, Bryan on thoughts and thinking
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"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."

Allen, James on thoughts and thinking
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"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

Aurelius, Marcus on thoughts and thinking
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"We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn'"

Lewis, C. S. on difficulties
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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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"All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death."

Twain, Mark on despair
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"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."

Twain, Mark on desire
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"What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea, to discover a great thought -- an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plough had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find a way to make the lightning carry your messages. To be the first -- that is the idea."

Twain, Mark on discovery
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"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness."

Williams, Tennessee on frankness
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"We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal."

Williams, Tennessee on suspicion
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"It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses."

Williams, Tennessee on creativity   

"We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it."

Williams, Tennessee on crisis   

"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."

Williams, Tennessee on change
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"We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."

Williams, Tennessee on loneliness
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