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Ralph Waldo Emerson: It does not...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It does not...

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: It is a...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It is a...

It is a luxury to be understood.

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

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Manners require time,...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Manners require time,...

Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: One man's justice...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: One man's justice...

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty is another's ugliness; one man's wisdom is another's...

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Mahatma Gandhi: Anger and intolerance...

Mahatma Gandhi: Anger and intolerance...

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Source: In...

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Mahatma Gandhi: I have known...

Mahatma Gandhi: I have known...

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

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Mahatma Gandhi: Intolerance betrays want...

Mahatma Gandhi: Intolerance betrays want...

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: Hating people is...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: Hating people is...

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Source: In...

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Henry Ward Beecher: A Christian is...

Henry Ward Beecher: A Christian is...

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming...

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Henry Ward Beecher: A book is...

Henry Ward Beecher: A book is...

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of...

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Henry Ward Beecher: He who is...

Henry Ward Beecher: He who is...

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its...

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Henry Ward Beecher: Keep a fair-sized...

Henry Ward Beecher: Keep a fair-sized...

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

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Henry Ward Beecher: Poverty is very...

Henry Ward Beecher: Poverty is very...

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical...

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Henry Ward Beecher: The ignorant classes...

Henry Ward Beecher: The ignorant classes...

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

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-- Henry Ward Beecher,...

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Henry Ward Beecher: There never was...

Henry Ward Beecher: There never was...

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he...

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George Eliot: Boots and shoes...

George Eliot: Boots and shoes...

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look...

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George Eliot: Ignorance gives one...

George Eliot: Ignorance gives one...

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

Source: Daniel Deronda,...

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George Eliot: Our instructed vagrancy,...

George Eliot: Our instructed vagrancy,...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is...

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George Eliot: Nothing is so...

George Eliot: Nothing is so...

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Source: Silas Marner, 1861
-- George...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: It is the...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: It is the...

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice...

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