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Mary Lyon: Nine-tenths of our...

Mary Lyon: Nine-tenths of our...

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they...

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Mark Hopkins: Language is the...

Mark Hopkins: Language is the...

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

Source: In The New Webster's...

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Gilbert Highet: The mind never...

Gilbert Highet: The mind never...

The mind never need stop growing. One of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own...

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Miguel de Unamuno: Science is a...

Miguel de Unamuno: Science is a...

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Source: The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913.
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Leo Tolstoy: Error is the...

Leo Tolstoy: Error is the...

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of...

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Robert Penn Warren: The urge to...

Robert Penn Warren: The urge to...

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Violence does, in...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Violence does, in...

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for...

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Jean Toomer: Perhaps . ....

Jean Toomer: Perhaps . ....

Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us to carry...

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Jean Toomer: We start with...

Jean Toomer: We start with...

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

Source: Definitions and...

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Lisa Alther: I wrote for...

Lisa Alther: I wrote for...

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside...

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John LeCarre: It's easy to...

John LeCarre: It's easy to...

It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a...

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Gertrude Stein: Considering how dangerous...

Gertrude Stein: Considering how dangerous...

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really frightening.

Source: In...

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Charles Buxton: In life, as...

Charles Buxton: In life, as...

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Artemus Ward: I am happiest...

Artemus Ward: I am happiest...

I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labor, and at the expiration of...

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Anthony Powell: Parents. . ....

Anthony Powell: Parents. . ....

Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early...

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James Agee: Understanding, and action...

James Agee: Understanding, and action...

Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's...

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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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Andre Malraux: Man is not...

Andre Malraux: Man is not...

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

Source: Attributed.
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Joseph Marie De Maistre: To know how...

Joseph Marie De Maistre: To know how...

To know how to wait is the great secret of success.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages...

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Bliss Carman: There is only...

Bliss Carman: There is only...

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be...

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