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Anatole France: To accomplish great...

Anatole France: To accomplish great...

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only dream but also...

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Elias Canetti: When you write...

Elias Canetti: When you write...

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard...

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Robert E Lee: Never do a...

Robert E Lee: Never do a...

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Source: In Wisdom of the...

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Oliver Cromwell: Not only strike...

Oliver Cromwell: Not only strike...

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

Source: In The...

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F Scott Fitzgerald: An idea ran...

F Scott Fitzgerald: An idea ran...

An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid...

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Dorothy L Sayers: A continual atmosphere...

Dorothy L Sayers: A continual atmosphere...

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your...

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Elizabeth Bowen: One can live...

Elizabeth Bowen: One can live...

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Source: The Heat of the...

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Louis Agassiz: The glacier was...

Louis Agassiz: The glacier was...

The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the...

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Felix Frankfurter: Wisdom too often...

Felix Frankfurter: Wisdom too often...

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes...

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Arthur J Goldberg: Modern diplomats approach...

Arthur J Goldberg: Modern diplomats approach...

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

Source: In Correct...

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Dale Carnegie: For better or...

Dale Carnegie: For better or...

For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

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Elizabeth Bowen: Meeting people unlike...

Elizabeth Bowen: Meeting people unlike...

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is...

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Annie Dillard: I woke at...

Annie Dillard: I woke at...

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than...

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Annie Dillard: No child on...

Annie Dillard: No child on...

No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Mothers are the...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Mothers are the...

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

Source: In Readers' Digest.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: These words dropped...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: These words dropped...

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think...

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Jessamyn West: A taste for...

Jessamyn West: A taste for...

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke...

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Alvin Toffler: One of the...

Alvin Toffler: One of the...

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new...

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: We promise according...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: We promise according...

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Source: In...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Youth is not...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Youth is not...

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Source: Samples...

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