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Elizabeth Fry: Punishment is not...

Elizabeth Fry: Punishment is not...

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

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Paramahansa Yogananda: Truth is exact...

Paramahansa Yogananda: Truth is exact...

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Paramahansa Yogananda: The season of...

Paramahansa Yogananda: The season of...

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Source: In...

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Mary Daly: Women have had...

Mary Daly: Women have had...

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the...

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Anthony J D'Angelo: Focus 90% of...

Anthony J D'Angelo: Focus 90% of...

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

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Anthony J D'Angelo: Don't fear change,...

Anthony J D'Angelo: Don't fear change,...

Don't fear change, embrace it.

Source: The College Blue Book
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Belva Lockwood: I know we...

Belva Lockwood: I know we...

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation. If women...

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Charles Sanders Peirce: There is one...

Charles Sanders Peirce: There is one...

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out...

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Luigi Pirandello: Drama is action,...

Luigi Pirandello: Drama is action,...

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

Source: Six Characters...

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Ethel Watts Mumford: Don't take the...

Ethel Watts Mumford: Don't take the...

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed!

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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Aphra Behn: Love ceases to...

Aphra Behn: Love ceases to...

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Source: The Lover's...

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Aphra Behn: Love's a thin...

Aphra Behn: Love's a thin...

Love's a thin diet, nor will keep out cold.

Source: The Lucky Chance, 1686.
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Robert Frost: I shall be...

Robert Frost: I shall be...

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I...

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Francesco Petrarch: How fortune brings...

Francesco Petrarch: How fortune brings...

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

Source: In The International Thesaurus...

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Thomas Gray: If the best...

Thomas Gray: If the best...

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his...

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Robert Herrick: Tears are the...

Robert Herrick: Tears are the...

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...

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Edwin A Robinson: I don't say...

Edwin A Robinson: I don't say...

I don't say what God is, but a name
That somehow answers us when we are driven
To feel and think how little we...

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Christina Rossetti: Better by far...

Christina Rossetti: Better by far...

Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

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Christina Rossetti: So now in...

Christina Rossetti: So now in...

So now in patience I possess
My soul year after tedious year,
Content to take the lowest place
The place...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Reading is important -- read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

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