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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who so loves believes the
Who so loves believes the impossible.
234
Luis Rodriguez
We have the right to
We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
14
Sanskrit Proverb
Men soon the faults of
Men soon the faults of others learn, A few their virtues, too, find out; But is there one?I have a doubt? Who can his own defects discern?
46
Mackay
An arrow may fly through
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
19
Thomas Kempis
The loftier the building, the
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
15
John F. Kennedy
There will always be dissident
There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expresing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility.
158
William James
Why should we think upon
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
66
Schiller
It is not flesh and
It is not flesh and blood, it is the heart, that makes fathers and sons.
21
Joseph Addison
Friendship improves hapiness and reduces
Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.
56
A. P. Gouthey
He helps others most, who
He helps others most, who shows them how to help themselves.
61
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Every event that a man
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
25
Schiller
Every man stamps his value
Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us. Man is made great or little by his own will.
24
Albert Pine
What we do for ourselves
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
85
Elizabeth Grymeston
A fair woman is a
A fair woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatory to the purse, and a hell to the soul.
22
Robert Henri
There are mighty few people
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
32
Schiller
He who has given satisfaction
He who has given satisfaction to the best of his time has lived for ages.
17
Anonymous
Civilization is a slow process
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.
85
Adolf Hitler
Those who want to live,
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
250
Schiller
It is difficult to understand
It is difficult to understand men, but still harder to know them thoroughly.
25
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
All truly wise thoughts have
All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
208
William Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors and
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
120
Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence is the greatest force
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
24
Schopenhauer
What a man can do
What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.
46
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The key to every man
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
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