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Sarah Orne Jewett: Tact is after...

Sarah Orne Jewett: Tact is after...

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs...

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Robert Stone: I am trying...

Robert Stone: I am trying...

I am trying - in a good cause - to crowd people out of their own minds and occupy their space. I want them to stop...

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Lydia M Child: That man's best...

Lydia M Child: That man's best...

That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that...

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Eudora Welty: Writing fiction has...

Eudora Welty: Writing fiction has...

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to...

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Ian Fleming: I shall not...

Ian Fleming: I shall not...

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Source:...

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Francois Rabelais: In their rules...

Francois Rabelais: In their rules...

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

Source: Referring to...

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Fanny Crosby: This is my...

Fanny Crosby: This is my...

This is my story, this is my Song,
Praising my Savior, all the day long.


Source:...

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Raoul Vaneigem: Daily life is...

Raoul Vaneigem: Daily life is...

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance...

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James Freeman Clarke: Never hurry. Take...

James Freeman Clarke: Never hurry. Take...

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be...

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Plutarch: Perseverance is more...

Plutarch: Perseverance is more...

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are taken together,...

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George Santayana: Those who cannot...

George Santayana: Those who cannot...

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Source: In Quotable...

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Maimonides: The risk of...

Maimonides: The risk of...

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

Source:...

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Thomas Paine: Such is the...

Thomas Paine: Such is the...

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of...

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Thomas Paine: What we obtain...

Thomas Paine: What we obtain...

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is the dearness only that gives everything value. Heaven knows how...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: How people keep...

Friedrich Nietzsche: How people keep...

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A character is...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A character is...

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; -- read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the...

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Richard C Trench: We must not...

Richard C Trench: We must not...

We must not conceive of prayer as overcoming God's reluctance, but as laying hold of His highest...

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Jeremy Taylor: Whatsoever we beg...

Jeremy Taylor: Whatsoever we beg...

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Source: The Rule and Exercises...

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Phillips Brooks: Character may be...

Phillips Brooks: Character may be...

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

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Henry Ward Beecher: What a mother...

Henry Ward Beecher: What a mother...

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Source: In...

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