Gray drip-wet dawn Leafless tree in solitude - Remembers the robin.
· Don Sax
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There would be no great ones if there were no little ones.
· George Herbert
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It is far easier to start something Than it is to finish it.
· Amelia Earhart
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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
· Zora Neale Hurston
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You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.
· Marcus Aurelius Antonin
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Swift as light and as cheers was the idea that broke in upon me. 'I have found it! What terrified me will terrify others; I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.'
· Mary Shelly
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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
· Henry Ward Beecher
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
· Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
· Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What runs but never gets tired? Water.
· Proverb
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Too often we ... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
· John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Tis better to buy a small bouquet And give to your friend this very day, Than a bushel of roses white and red To lay on his coffin after hes dead.
· Proverb
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From trial he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures - peace and health.
· Thomas Gray
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Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.
· Elbert Hubbard
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity's sunrise.
· William Blake
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by looping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
· Jonathan Swift
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
· Mahatma Gandhi
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A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.
· Harry S. Truman
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There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
· Alfred Edward Housman
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Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite.
· Jean Kerr
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To know is not to know, unless someone else has known that I know.
· Lucillius
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What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield.
· John Milton
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From its beginning, the world has been filled with a succession of calamities; over and above the unavoidable facts of illness, decrepitude and death.
· Guatama Buddha
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We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
· Henry David Thoreau
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Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: And when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
· Sir Walter Raleigh
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
· Dr. Samuel Johnson
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The word is half his that speaks, And half his that hears it.
· Michel de Montaigne
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Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.
· Samuel Johnson
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
· Edith Hamilton
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Just as man cant exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate ones rights into reality to think, to work and keep the results which means: the right of property.
· Ayn Rand
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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.
· Robert Browning
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Every man has two personalities; the one he reveals to women, the other to men.
· Minna Thomas Antrim
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Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance.
· Helen Lawrenson
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Sapientia vino obumbratur Wisdom is overshadowed by wine
· Proverb
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Watch them seeking to placate and understand the world above This they know. This they understand. There is darkness, everywhere, outside.
· Unknown
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Life is too complicated and there is too much at stake to even think about trying to handle it all without the guidance of the Spirit.
· C. Smith Sumner
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It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.
· Sir Norman Angell
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Correct me if I'm wrong - the gizmo is connected to the flingflang connected to the watzis, watzis connected to the doo-dad connected to the ding dong.
· Patrick B. Oliphant
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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
· Mignon McLaughlin
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Happiness isn't something you experience, it's something you remember.
· Oscar Levant
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Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.
· Robert Anson Heinlein
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Though she were true, when you met her, And last, till you write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two, or three.
· John Donne
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
· Benjamin Franklin
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
· Sydney J. Harris
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When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.
· Konrad Adenauer
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Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one.
· Benjamin Franklin
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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of each day and hour.
· Stephen Butler Leacock
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This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
· Thomas Stearns Eliot
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To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
· William Wordsworth
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Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
· Homer
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The thing you really believe in always happens ... and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
· Frank Lloyd Wright
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Too fast we live, too much are tried, Too harassd, to attain Wordsworths sweet calm, or Goethes wide And luminous view to gain.
· Matthew Arnold
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