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John Bunyan: My sword I...

John Bunyan: My sword I...

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A friend is...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A friend is...

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

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Florence Scovel Shinn: We cannot always...

Florence Scovel Shinn: We cannot always...

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we...

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Mother Teresa: To keep a...

Mother Teresa: To keep a...

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

Source: In Saints Among...

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Immanuel Kant: Imagination is a...

Immanuel Kant: Imagination is a...

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual...

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John Locke: It is one...

John Locke: It is one...

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of...

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Kingsley Amis: If you can't...

Kingsley Amis: If you can't...

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

Source: From...

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Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people...

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Judith Krantz: It's that or...

Judith Krantz: It's that or...

It's that or get fat again, she told herself, as she . . . searched the windows for new merchandise. The thrill was in...

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Andre Malraux: Genius is not...

Andre Malraux: Genius is not...

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with...

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Francis Bacon: He that commands...

Francis Bacon: He that commands...

He that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he...

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James Cone: Anger and humor...

James Cone: Anger and humor...

Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their...

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Johann Casper Lavater: Who in the...

Johann Casper Lavater: Who in the...

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who...

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Francois de Salignac Fenelon: All earthly delights...

Francois de Salignac Fenelon: All earthly delights...

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than...

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Aristotle: The best friend...

Aristotle: The best friend...

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Source: In...

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Harriet Tubman: We saw the...

Harriet Tubman: We saw the...

We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard...

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Harriet Tubman: Never wound a...

Harriet Tubman: Never wound a...

Never wound a snake, kill it.

Source: In The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya, by Terri L....

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Robert Runcie: Those who dare...

Robert Runcie: Those who dare...

Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another....

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Tryon Edwards: Never be so...

Tryon Edwards: Never be so...

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Horace Greeley: Abstaining is favorable...

Horace Greeley: Abstaining is favorable...

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

Source: In Correct Quotes...

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