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Thomas Love Peacock: He was sent,...

Thomas Love Peacock: He was sent,...

He was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to...

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James Agee: When he ran...

James Agee: When he ran...

When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to...

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James Agee: God doesn't believe...

James Agee: God doesn't believe...

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

Source: In The Book of Southern Wisdom, by...

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Sir Walter Scott: The half hour...

Sir Walter Scott: The half hour...

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my...

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Lao-Tzu: A journey of...

Lao-Tzu: A journey of...

A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet.
A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of...

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Lao-Tzu: Govern a great...

Lao-Tzu: Govern a great...

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)

Source:...

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Arthur Schopenhauer: Treat a work...

Arthur Schopenhauer: Treat a work...

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

Source: In The...

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Antisthenes: Pay attention to...

Antisthenes: Pay attention to...

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

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Giambattista Vico: The nature of...

Giambattista Vico: The nature of...

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally...

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Friedrich Engels: Freedom is the...

Friedrich Engels: Freedom is the...

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Gaston Bachelard: A word is...

Gaston Bachelard: A word is...

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: That indescribable expression...

Helen Hunt Jackson: That indescribable expression...

That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Wounded vanity knows...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Wounded vanity knows...

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride...

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Robert Graves: Take your delight...

Robert Graves: Take your delight...

Take your delight in momentariness,
Walk between dark and dark - a shining space
With the grave's narrowness,...

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Georges Bernanos: Faith is not...

Georges Bernanos: Faith is not...

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

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Elizabeth Gaskell: I'll not listen...

Elizabeth Gaskell: I'll not listen...

I'll not listen to reason. . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

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Anne Tyler: I've always thought...

Anne Tyler: I've always thought...

I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. . . . I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night,...

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Epicurus: Nothing is enough...

Epicurus: Nothing is enough...

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Mencius: Sincerity is the...

Mencius: Sincerity is the...

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Henry Ward Beecher: The head learns...

Henry Ward Beecher: The head learns...

The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences.

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