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Gaston Bachelard: Ideas are invented...

Gaston Bachelard: Ideas are invented...

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to...

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Tammy Faye Bakker: You don't have...

Tammy Faye Bakker: You don't have...

You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.

Source: In Newsweek, 8 Jun...

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Lu Yan: The secret of...

Lu Yan: The secret of...

The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap...

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Isaac Watts: And he that...

Isaac Watts: And he that...

And he that does one fault at first
And lies to hide it, makes it two.


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Antonio Porchia: If you do...

Antonio Porchia: If you do...

If you do not raise your eyes, you will think you are at the highest point.

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C S Lewis: The long dull...

C S Lewis: The long dull...

The long dull monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather...

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Jeremy Taylor: Men are apt...

Jeremy Taylor: Men are apt...

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Source: In Correct...

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Phillips Brooks: It is while...

Phillips Brooks: It is while...

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of...

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Hosea Ballou: Theories are always...

Hosea Ballou: Theories are always...

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

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Robert South: Action is the...

Robert South: Action is the...

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: Liberty is always...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: Liberty is always...

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Source: In Correct...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: Every human life...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: Every human life...

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The future influences...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The future influences...

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Source: In Webster's...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: At bottom every...

Friedrich Nietzsche: At bottom every...

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: He who would...

Friedrich Nietzsche: He who would...

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Thoughts are the...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Thoughts are the...

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The creation of...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The creation of...

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Sydney Smith: Oh, don't tell...

Sydney Smith: Oh, don't tell...

Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except...

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Ernest Dimnet: Too often we...

Ernest Dimnet: Too often we...

Too often we forget that genius. . . depends upon the data within its reach, that Archimedes could not have devised...

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Ernest Dimnet: Every now and...

Ernest Dimnet: Every now and...

Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody...

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