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| In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them. |
John Greenleaf Whittier |
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| The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none. |
Philip Caldwell |
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| Happiness hates the timid So does science |
Eugene O'Neill |
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| Critics I love every bone in their heads. |
Eugene O'Neill |
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| Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers. |
Rodan of Alexandria |
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| Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. |
Rodan of Alexandria |
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| Fascism is capitalism in decay. |
Lenin |
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| A lie told often enough becomes truth. |
Lenin |
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| While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. |
Lenin |
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| Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. |
Henri de Lubac |
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| Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence. |
Franoise Mallet-Joris |
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| I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. |
Walt Whitman |
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| Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love. |
Walt Whitman |
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| Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. |
Walt Whitman |
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| Answer That you are here---that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. |
Walt Whitman |
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| In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. |
Walt Whitman |
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| I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is. |
Walt Whitman |
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| The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. |
Walt Whitman |
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| Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me And why should I not speak to you |
Walt Whitman |
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| Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. |
Walt Whitman |
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| I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. |
Walt Whitman |
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| My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic. |
Walt Whitman |
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| And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.) |
Walt Whitman |
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| From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me. |
Walt Whitman |
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| I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value, |
Walt Whitman |
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| I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. |
Walt Whitman |
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| I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. |
Walt Whitman |
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| Do I contradict myself Very well then I contradict myself, |
Walt Whitman |
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| I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. |
Walt Whitman |
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| If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred. |
Walt Whitman |
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| Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch. |
Walt Whitman |
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| Nothing endures but personal qualities. |
Walt Whitman |
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| Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. |
Walt Whitman |
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| The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give. |
Walt Whitman |
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| Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. |
Walt Whitman |
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| I celebrate myself, and sing myself. |
Walt Whitman |
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| Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. |
Thomas Hobbes |
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| Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools. |
Thomas Hobbes |
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| The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only. |
Thomas Hobbes |
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| Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. |
Thomas Hobbes |
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| Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome. |
Thomas Hobbes |
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| Leisure is the mother of philosophy. |
Thomas Hobbes |
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| Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope the same, without such opinion, despair. |
Thomas Hobbes |
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| The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. |
David Russell |
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| We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. |
David Russell |
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| Not all who wander are lost. |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
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| Little by little, one travels far. |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
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| Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
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| It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish. |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
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| The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination. |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
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| Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to. |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
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| It's a dangerous business going out your front door. |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
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| I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
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| I don't know half of you half as well as I should like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
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| Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
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| If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
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| One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
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| All that is gold does not glitter not all those that wander are lost. |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
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| 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.' |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
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| Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends. |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
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| His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
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| Nineties style isn't. |
David Borenstein |
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| Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions. |
David Borenstein |
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| One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force. |
David Borenstein |
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| 'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them. |
David Borenstein |
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| Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs. |
David Borenstein |
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| The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.' |
Roy Blount, Jr. |
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| Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. |
Horace |
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| Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. |
Horace |
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| Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal. |
Horace |
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| He has the deed half done who has made a beginning. |
Horace |
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| Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them as they go, they take many away.) |
Horace |
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| I strive to be brief, and become obscure. |
Horace |
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| Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces. |
Horace |
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| Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow. |
Horace |
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| To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him. |
Horace |
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| He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay. |
Horace |
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| Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.(When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.) |
Horace |
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| Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. (While we talk, hostile time flies away) |
Horace |
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| Whatever your advice, make it brief. |
Horace |
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| You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. |
Horace |
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| Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. (You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.) |
Horace |
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| In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. |
Horace |
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| Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him. |
Horace |
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| Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. |
Horace |
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| You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart. |
Horace |
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| Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom. |
Horace |
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| Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own He who secure within can say Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. |
Horace |
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| The appearance of right oft leads us wrong. |
Horace |
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| He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. |
Horace |
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| Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. |
Horace |
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| Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants. |
Horace |
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| Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you. |
Horace |
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| He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. |
Horace |
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| If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself. |
Horace |
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| I will not add another word. |
Horace |
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| Faults are soon copied. |
Horace |
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| Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking. |
Horace |
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| With silence favor me. |
Horace |
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| It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. |
Horace |
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