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Henry David Thoreau: Drive a nail...

Henry David Thoreau: Drive a nail...

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with...

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Henry David Thoreau: Pursue some path,...

Henry David Thoreau: Pursue some path,...

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and...

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Henry David Thoreau: The bluebird carries...

Henry David Thoreau: The bluebird carries...

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Henry David Thoreau: The civilized man...

Henry David Thoreau: The civilized man...

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

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Henry David Thoreau: We perceive and...

Henry David Thoreau: We perceive and...

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

Source: In...

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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: Only a man...

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: Only a man...

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a...

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Otto von Bismarck: The main thing...

Otto von Bismarck: The main thing...

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Source: In Correct Quotes for...

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A J Balfour: He has only...

A J Balfour: He has only...

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and...

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Winston Churchill: It may be...

Winston Churchill: It may be...

It may be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the...

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Edmund Burke: Our patience will...

Edmund Burke: Our patience will...

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Source: Reflections on the...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: The pursuit, even...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: The pursuit, even...

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Source: In...

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Thomas Carlyle: No man who...

Thomas Carlyle: No man who...

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

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Thomas Carlyle: Science must have...

Thomas Carlyle: Science must have...

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Source: In...

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Thomas Carlyle: The sincere alone...

Thomas Carlyle: The sincere alone...

The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

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G K Chesterton: Angels can fly...

G K Chesterton: Angels can fly...

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Source: 'Orthodoxy'
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G K Chesterton: Education is the...

G K Chesterton: Education is the...

Education is the period during which I was being instructed by somebody I did not know, about something I did not want...

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G K Chesterton: We call a...

G K Chesterton: We call a...

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite...

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G K Chesterton: The disadvantage of...

G K Chesterton: The disadvantage of...

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of...

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G K Chesterton: And they that...

G K Chesterton: And they that...

And they that rule in England,
In stately conclave met,
Alas, alas for England
They have no graves as...

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G K Chesterton: If I had...

G K Chesterton: If I had...

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Source: In...

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