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| Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. |
Goethe, Johann Von |
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| The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. |
Goethe, Johann Von |
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| Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay. |
Goethe, Johann Von |
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| For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. |
Goethe, Johann Von |
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| Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. |
Goethe, Johann Von |
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| Life is the childhood of our immortality. |
Goethe, Johann Von |
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| The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. |
Goethe, Johann Von |
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| It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap. |
Goethe, Johann Von |
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| Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. |
Goethe, Johann Von |
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| On every mountain height is rest. |
Goethe, Johann Von |
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| Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. |
Goethe, Johann Von |
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| Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste. |
Goethe, Johann Von |
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| Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. |
Goethe, Johann Von |
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| One always has time enough, if one will apply it well. |
Goethe, Johann Von |
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| Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done. |
Goethe, Johann Von |
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| It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it. |
Goethe, Johann Von |
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| Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it. Others do just the same with their time. |
Goethe, Johann Von |
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| A wise traveler never despises his own country. |
Goldoni, Carlo |
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| Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around. |
Goldsmith, Oliver |
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| How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease. |
Goldsmith, Oliver |
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| Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray. |
Goldsmith, Oliver |
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| The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition. |
Goldsmith, Oliver |
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| A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. |
Goldwyn, Samuel |
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| Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. |
Goncourt |
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| Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with ?the world?; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. |
Goodman, Nelson |
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| Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with ?the world?; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. |
Goodman, Nelson |
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| It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking. |
Asimov, Isaac |
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| Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. |
Gordon, George |
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| There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them. |
Gorky, Maxim |
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| Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame. |
Gracian, Baltasar |
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| Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. |
Gracian, Baltasar |
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| Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers. |
Gracian, Baltasar |
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| Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. |
Gracian, Baltasar |
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| To hide her cares her only art; her pleasure, pleasures to impart. |
Gray, Thomas |
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| I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats. |
Greeley, Horace |
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| The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. |
Greeley, Horace |
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| Avarice, sphincter of the heart. |
Greene, Michael |
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| When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. |
Gregory I |
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| Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. |
Gregory I |
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| The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy. |
Grenville |
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| Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills. |
Grillparzer, Franz |
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| Art is either plagiarism or revolution. |
Guaguin, Paul |
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| I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitima |
Astor, Lady Nancy |
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| I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don?t do business with.... I can?t do business with you. |
Guare, John |
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| The carpenter is not the best who makesmore chips than all the rest. |
Guiterman, Arthur |
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| To be on time is to be late. To be early is to be on time. |
Gunter, Tim |
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| There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change. |
Gurdjieff |
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| Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing. |
Gurdjieff |
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| One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good. |
Gurdjieff |
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| The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and "consciousness" cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and "will" cannot evolve involuntarily. The evolution of man is the evolution of his power of doing, and "doing" cannot be the result of things which "happen." |
Gurdjieff |
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| Business is, emphatically, the amusement of Americans, and, to be in keeping with their character, every thing written for their amusement should partake of the useful. |
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| From the fact there are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals, he concluded that the Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles, and so we might be more likely to meet them than any other type of animal on a planet that would support life. |
Haldane, J.B.S. |
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| I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country. |
Hale, Nathan |
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| The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. |
Half, Robert |
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| Innocence is always unsuspicious. |
Haliburton |
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| Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. |
Hall, Joseph |
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| Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet. |
Hall, Joseph |
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| A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every part about us; and I believe the story of Argu simplies no more, than the eye is in every part; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated, were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself. |
Addison, Joseph |
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| Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner. |
Addison, Joseph |
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| A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. |
Addison, Joseph |
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| Jesters do often prove prophets. |
Addison, Joseph |
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| The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. |
Addison, Joseph |
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| To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. |
Addison, Joseph |
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| All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation. |
Auden, W. H. |
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| A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. |
Auden, W. H. |
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| Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. |
Auden, W. H. |
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| A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. |
Hall, Manly P. |
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| Experience teaches that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements, in the most ordinary occupations, are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and by slow gradations. Men would resist changes, so long as even a bare support could be ensured by an adherence to ancient courses, and perhaps even longer. |
Hamilton, Alexander |
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| Power may justly be compared to a great river; while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it comes. |
Hamilton, Andrew |
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| If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice." |
Hand, Learned |
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| The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom. |
Hardy, Thomas |
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| Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown. |
Hardy, Thomas |
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| Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. |
Hare and Charles |
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| Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. |
Hare and Charles |
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| Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers. |
Harriman, Averell |
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| Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. |
Harrington, James |
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| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason. |
Harrington, John |
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| It is easier to be a "humanitarian" than to render your own country its proper due; it is easier to be a "patriot" than to make your community a better place to live in; it is easier to be a "civic leader" than to treat your own family with loving understanding; for the smaller the focus of attention, the harder the task. |
Harris, Sydney J. |
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| The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. |
Aurelius, Marcus |
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| Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. |
Aurelius, Marcus |
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| What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. |
Aurelius, Marcus |
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| Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. |
Aurelius, Marcus |
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| Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it can never forgive the preaching of a new gosp |
Harrison, Frederic |
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| Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it can never forgive the preaching of a new gospel. |
Harrison, Frederic |
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| Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. |
Harrison, Frederic |
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| I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was. |
Harrison, Rex |
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| Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other. |
Hart, Oliver J. |
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| And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee: So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me. |
Harte, Bret |
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| O cursed ambition, thou devouring bird, how dost thou from the field of honesty pick every grain of profit or delight, and mock the reaper's toil! |
Harvard |
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| Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. |
Havel, V?clav |
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| Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roo |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
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| The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
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| So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
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| You can?t talk about a kind of democracy unless those who are affected by decisions make those decisions whether the institutions in question be the welfare department, the university, the factory, the farm, the neighborhood, the country. |
Hayden, Casey |
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| Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. |
Hazlitt, William |
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| To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. |
Hazlitt, William |
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| Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. |
Hazlitt, William |
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| One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. |
Hazlitt, William |
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| Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. |
Hazlitt, William |
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| The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. |
Hazlitt, William |
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