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G K Chesterton: How you think...

G K Chesterton: How you think...

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

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G K Chesterton: Women prefer to...

G K Chesterton: Women prefer to...

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

Source: In...

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G K Chesterton: Love means to...

G K Chesterton: Love means to...

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Source: In...

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Henry David Thoreau: I sat at...

Henry David Thoreau: I sat at...

I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were...

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Henry David Thoreau: I find it...

Henry David Thoreau: I find it...

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and...

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Henry David Thoreau: We are made...

Henry David Thoreau: We are made...

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than...

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Henry David Thoreau: What right have...

Henry David Thoreau: What right have...

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

Source: Letter, 2 Mar...

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Henry David Thoreau: What sort of...

Henry David Thoreau: What sort of...

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of...

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Henry David Thoreau: You must not...

Henry David Thoreau: You must not...

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

Source: Letter, 2 Mar 1842, to...

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Albert Schweitzer: Happiness? That's nothing...

Albert Schweitzer: Happiness? That's nothing...

Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.

Source: In Webster's...

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Albert Schweitzer: Man can hardly...

Albert Schweitzer: Man can hardly...

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Source: In The...

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Pearl Buck: Be born anywhere,...

Pearl Buck: Be born anywhere,...

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden...

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Annie Dillard: The sense impressions...

Annie Dillard: The sense impressions...

The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a...

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Annie Dillard: I don't know...

Annie Dillard: I don't know...

I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth,...

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Annie Dillard: It could be...

Annie Dillard: It could be...

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of...

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Gertrude Stein: Americans are very...

Gertrude Stein: Americans are very...

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the...

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Gertrude Stein: A writer must...

Gertrude Stein: A writer must...

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other...

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Jessamyn West: In their sympathies,...

Jessamyn West: In their sympathies,...

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

Source: The Life I...

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Jerome K Jerome: Nothing is more...

Jerome K Jerome: Nothing is more...

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young,...

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Ralph Ellison: It takes a...

Ralph Ellison: It takes a...

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

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