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Diogenes: As a matter...

Diogenes: As a matter...

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the...

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Georg Hegel: An idea is...

Georg Hegel: An idea is...

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to...

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Gilbert Ryle: So too Plato...

Gilbert Ryle: So too Plato...

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he...

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Chuang-tzu: He who pursues...

Chuang-tzu: He who pursues...

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Source: In...

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: A confession has...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: A confession has...

A confession has to be part of your new life.

Source: Culture and Value (ed. by G....

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Friend may...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Friend may...

A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.

Source: Essays,...

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Robert Penn Warren: The end of...

Robert Penn Warren: The end of...

The end of man is knowledge, but [man] can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him; whether he is killed...

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Georges Bernanos: The world is...

Georges Bernanos: The world is...

The world is eaten up by boredom. . . . You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never...

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Richard C Trench: As shadows attend...

Richard C Trench: As shadows attend...

As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.

Source: In Wisdom of the...

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Heraclitus of Ephesus: When men dream,...

Heraclitus of Ephesus: When men dream,...

When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.

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Phillips Brooks: Do not pray...

Phillips Brooks: Do not pray...

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal...

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Hosea Ballou: Tears of joy...

Hosea Ballou: Tears of joy...

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Source: In The...

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Hosea Ballou: Disease is the...

Hosea Ballou: Disease is the...

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Henry Ward Beecher: A person without...

Henry Ward Beecher: A person without...

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the...

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John Bunyan: As I walked...

John Bunyan: As I walked...

As I walked through the wilderness of this world.

Source: The Pilgrim's Progress,...

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Carter Heyward: I'm a priest,...

Carter Heyward: I'm a priest,...

I'm a priest, not a priestess. . . 'Priestess' implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on- Those who oppose...

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Charles Dickens: He'd make a...

Charles Dickens: He'd make a...

He'd make a lovely corpse.

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit, Ch. 25
-- Charles Dickens,...

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Charles Dickens: Minerva House was...

Charles Dickens: Minerva House was...

Minerva House was 'a finishing establishment for young ladies,' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to...

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Francoise Sagan: To jealousy, nothing...

Francoise Sagan: To jealousy, nothing...

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Source: La Chamade,...

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George Eliot: It is only...

George Eliot: It is only...

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have...

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