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William Shakespeare


He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


The world belongs to the energetic.

Peter Ustinov


Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

Sir William Temple


Human status ought not to depend upon the changing demands of the economic process.

Jean de La Fontaine


No path of flowers leads to glory.

Oscar Wilde


America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Oscar Wilde, upon being told the cost of an operation


I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Sheila Graham


You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

Henry David Thoreau


I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

John Ruskin


The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.

Unknown


A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

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Lawana Blackwell


It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

Theodore Roosevelt


To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004


Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Dan Zadra


Worry is a misuse of imagination.

John D. Rockefeller


Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Charles Caleb Colton


Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

Colin Powell


Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

African Proverb


When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Henry David Thoreau


When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly...I think-- Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.

Woodrow Wilson, April 2, 1917


The world must be made safe for democracy.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

Alexander Pope


Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

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Bruce Barton


Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance

Tyron Edwards


Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

William S. Gilbert


Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers

T.S. Eliot


Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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Harry Homes


Ignorance is the mother of fear.

Phyllis Bottome


When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Dag Hammarskjold


You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.

Sun-Tzu


If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

Adlai Stevenson


Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Benjamin Franklin


If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

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Sarah Orne Jewett


Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

John Wooden


It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Confucius, Analects, IV.7


In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will know the man.

M. C. Escher, Quoted in Comic Sections, D. MacHale (Dublin 1993)


What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

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