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| Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired. |
Joseph Roux |
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| A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. |
Joseph Roux |
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| To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. |
Andr Malraux |
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| And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own. |
Andr Malraux |
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| Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. |
Rabindranath Tagore |
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| Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. |
Rabindranath Tagore |
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| The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist. |
Rabindranath Tagore |
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| Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. |
Rabindranath Tagore |
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| We gain freedom when we have paid the full price... |
Rabindranath Tagore |
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| Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms. |
Rabindranath Tagore |
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| The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment. |
Rabindranath Tagore |
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| Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. |
Rabindranath Tagore |
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| While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones. |
Rabindranath Tagore |
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| In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth. |
Rabindranath Tagore |
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| In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight. |
Rabindranath Tagore |
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| Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. |
Rabindranath Tagore |
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| The people have a right supremeTo make their kings, for Kings are made for them.All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust,Which when resum'd, can be no longer just.Successionm for the general good design'd,In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind. |
John Dryden |
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| Beware the fury of a patient man. |
John Dryden |
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| All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute. |
John Dryden |
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| We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. |
John Dryden |
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| Reason to rule but mercy to forgive The first is the law, the last prerogative. |
John Dryden |
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| Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide. |
John Dryden |
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| Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where. |
John Dryden |
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| How can finite grasp infinity |
John Dryden |
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| The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies. |
John Dryden |
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| Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. |
John Dryden |
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| Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. |
John Dryden |
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| Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are. |
John Dryden |
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| A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils. |
John Dryden |
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| You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water. |
John Dryden |
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| Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. |
John Dryden |
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| And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. |
John Dryden |
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| Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue. |
John Dryden |
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| They think to little who talk to much. |
John Dryden |
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| We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure. |
John Dryden |
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| Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace. |
John Dryden |
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| But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little and who talk too much. |
John Dryden |
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| Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare. |
John Dryden |
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| The conscience of a people is their power. |
John Dryden |
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| Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. |
Archimedes |
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| Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. |
Archimedes |
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| The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. |
Max Eastman |
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| Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. |
Max Eastman |
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| It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. |
Max Eastman |
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| I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest a while. |
Max Eastman |
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| Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. |
Romain Cary |
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| Mosaic is the 1990's equivalent of forcing friends to sit through slides of your trip to Florida - painful for everyone but the host. |
Steve G. Steinberg |
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| There is no virtue in being uncritical nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics. |
Richard Livingstone |
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| I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. |
Leo Rosten |
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| The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. |
Leo Rosten |
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| I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe. |
Leo Rosten |
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| When it's breezy, hit it easy. |
Davis Love, Jr. |
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| You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. |
Naguib, Mahfouz |
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| Happy is he who can give himself up. |
Naguib, Mahfouz |
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| One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Better hazard once than always be in fear. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| 'Tis not every question that deserves an answer. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Two things a man should never be angry at what he can help, and what he cannot help. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| No good workman without good tools. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Rigid justice is the greatest injustice. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| If you have a true friend, you have more than your share. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| All things are difficult before they are easy. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Care and diligence bring luck. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| A good friend is my nearest relation. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Do as most do, and men will speak well of you. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| The grave is the general meeting place. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Money is the sinew of love as well as war. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Health is not valued till sickness comes. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| He that plants trees loves others beside himself. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| With foxes we must play the fox. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Purchase not friends by gifts when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| If thou are a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Enquire not what boils in another's pot. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Learning makes a man fit company for himself. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. |
Thomas Fuller |
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| It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. |
James Fenimore Cooper |
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| The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. |
James Fenimore Cooper |
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| Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. |
Charles Simic |
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| Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
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