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Manly Hall: Moderation is the...

Manly Hall: Moderation is the...

Moderation is the secret of survival.

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

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Plutarch: A sage thing...

Plutarch: A sage thing...

A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech.

Source: 'The Education...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: General and abstract...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: General and abstract...

General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind.

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Florence Scovel Shinn: You will be...

Florence Scovel Shinn: You will be...

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by...

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Kingsley Amis: He was of...

Kingsley Amis: He was of...

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was...

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Robert Penn Warren: I've been to...

Robert Penn Warren: I've been to...

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do...

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James Freeman Clarke: We are either...

James Freeman Clarke: We are either...

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this...

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Joseph Roux: Experience comprises illusions...

Joseph Roux: Experience comprises illusions...

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Source: Meditations...

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Plutarch: To find a...

Plutarch: To find a...

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Source: In Correct Quotes...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: There are two...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: There are two...

There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, is it good in itself? In the...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Extreme positions are...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Extreme positions are...

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

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Joanna Field: The growth of...

Joanna Field: The growth of...

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

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Joanna Field: I began to...

Joanna Field: I began to...

I began to suggest that thought, which I had always before Iooked on as a cart-horse to be driven, whipped and...

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Wayne Dyer: It's never too...

Wayne Dyer: It's never too...

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Stephen Leacock: A sportsman is...

Stephen Leacock: A sportsman is...

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He...

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Henry David Thoreau: Absolutely speaking, Do...

Henry David Thoreau: Absolutely speaking, Do...

Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the...

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Christopher Lasch: It is a...

Christopher Lasch: It is a...

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times --the...

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Nicholas Butler: The one serious...

Nicholas Butler: The one serious...

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too...

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Emily James Putnam: Maternity is on...

Emily James Putnam: Maternity is on...

Maternity is on the face of it an unsocial experience.

Source: Introduction, The...

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Emily James Putnam: The selfishness that...

Emily James Putnam: The selfishness that...

The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and...

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