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Thomas Carlyle: Reform is not...

Thomas Carlyle: Reform is not...

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a...

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Henry David Thoreau: The highest law...

Henry David Thoreau: The highest law...

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

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-- Henry David...

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Ashley Montagu: It is work,...

Ashley Montagu: It is work,...

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has...

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Loren Eiseley: From the solitude...

Loren Eiseley: From the solitude...

From the solitude of the wood, [Man] has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the...

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Loren Eiseley: It was the...

Loren Eiseley: It was the...

It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes. This is the...

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Carl Gustav Jung: The man who...

Carl Gustav Jung: The man who...

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using...

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Claude Levi-Strauss: The musical emotion...

Claude Levi-Strauss: The musical emotion...

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less...

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Charles Horton Cooley: The bashful are...

Charles Horton Cooley: The bashful are...

The bashful are always aggressive at heart.

Source: Human Nature and the Social...

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August Bier: If there weren't...

August Bier: If there weren't...

If there weren't so many professors, medicine would be much easier.

Source:...

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Life is filigree...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Life is filigree...

Life is filigree work. . . . What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that...

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Edward F Halifax: Men who borrow...

Edward F Halifax: Men who borrow...

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Source: Miscellaneous...

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Georges Clemenceau: A man's life...

Georges Clemenceau: A man's life...

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass...

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Loren Eiseley: If it should...

Loren Eiseley: If it should...

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a...

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Carlos Castaneda: A man of...

Carlos Castaneda: A man of...

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Source: In The...

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Annie Elizabeth Delany: Turning one hundred...

Annie Elizabeth Delany: Turning one hundred...

Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so...

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Clara Barton: This conflict is...

Clara Barton: This conflict is...

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young -- young enough to go to the front. If...

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Lillian Carter: How could Jimmy...

Lillian Carter: How could Jimmy...

How could Jimmy ever criticize me? l'm his mama.

Source: In The Book of Quotes, by...

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Hippocrates: Science is the...

Hippocrates: Science is the...

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Source: The Canon...

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Hippocrates: Life is short,...

Hippocrates: Life is short,...

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.

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William Osler: No bubble is...

William Osler: No bubble is...

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

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