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1. It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who hasprospered.
Aeschylus
2. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
Aesop
3. Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop
4. If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.
Anonymous
5. You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
Aristophanes
6. The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle
7. Nature does nothing uselessly.
Aristotle
8. A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Aristotle
9. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Berthold Auerbach
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10.Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
George W. Ball
11. Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
Maurice Baring
12. Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.
E.R. Beadle
13. What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake
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14. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
15. What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
Jorge Luis Borges
16. My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of mywants.
J. Brotherton
17. Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best
relationship.
Buddha
18. The course of true anything does not run smooth.
Samuel Butler
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19. An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
Cato The Elder
20. We live in a rainbow of Chaos.
Paul Cezanne
21. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who
have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.Dale Carnegie
22. In some cases, non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
Cesar Chavez
23. When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured.
Anton Chekhov
24. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
--G. K. Chesterton
25. A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood.--Chinese Proverb
26. It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous thatyou realize just how much you love them.
--Agatha Christie
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27. Success is never final.
Winston Churchill
28. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit
down and listen.--Winston Churchill
29. By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the
bitterest.
Confucius
30. When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know athing, to allow that you do not know it--this is knowledge.
Confucius
31. Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Confucius
32. History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins
33. A good book has no ending.
R.D. Cumming
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34. Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
35. There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Isaac Disraeli
36. Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.
John Dykes
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37. The environment is everything that isn't me.
Albert Einstein
38. Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
Havelock Ellis
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39. The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that
the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
44. Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much thegreatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
45. Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Euripides
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46. The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.William Faulkner
47. The voice is a second signature.
R. I. Fitzhenry
48. The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcom Forbes
49. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
50. Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.Benjamin Franklin
51. The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.
Northrop Frye
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52. Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil Gibran
53. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran, from The Prophet
54. The impossible is often the untried.
Jim Goodwin
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55. There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.
Donald Harington
56. Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a
part.
William Hazlitt
57. All good work is done the way ants do things, Little by little.
Lafcadio Hearn
58. My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest
way.
Ernest Hemingway
59. Nothing endures but change.Heraclitus
60. You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
George Herbert
61. Hope is the poor man's bread.
George Herbert
62. Great deeds are usually wrought at great risk.
Herodotus
63. We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know,
when we will, how to speak true things.
Hesiod
64. Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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65. Hunger is not debatable.
Harry Hopkins
66. Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt.
(The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, theytake many away.)
Horace, fromArs Poetica
67. Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.
(When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.)
Horace,from Ars Poetica
68. A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Edgar Watson Howe
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69. Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James
70. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but
indecision.
William James
71. Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
Juvenal
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72. From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be
fashioned.
Immanuel Kant
73. A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.
John Keats
74. My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Buddinton Kelland
75. Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
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76. Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Arthur Koestler
77. Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.
E. L. Konigsburg
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78. There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
Alphonse de Lamartine
79. People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to
bend.
Walter Savage Landor
80. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.Lao Tzu
81. It is the Vague and Elusive.
82. Meet it and you will not see its head.
83. Follow it and you will not see its back.
Lao Tzu
84. One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
85. It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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86. Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
Martial
87. The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Karl Marx
88. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
89. We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
Menander
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90. It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie
if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken
91. That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes theheight of wisdom in the next.
John Stuart Mill
92. You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
Marvin Minsky
93. How glorious it is -- and also how painful -- to be an exception.
Alfred de Musset
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94. If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you
won't have to work.
Ogden Nash
95. No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Friederich Nietzsche
96. There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friederich Nietzsche
97. Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.Louis Nizer
98. We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Friedrich Novalis
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99. What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives
everything its value.
Thomas Paine
100. It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
Blaise Pascal
101. In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
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102. Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with
being in the world.
Cesare Pavese
103. The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Edward Phelps
104. We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he
does it, the easier it looks.
Eden Phillpotts
105. The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
Pindar
106. Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and oftensilence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Pindar
107. A catherdral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as
we had hoped.
Marcel Proust
108. Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
Marcel Proust
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109. However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even
an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last
time.
Peter Quennell
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110. It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it
elsewhere.Agnes Repplier
111. Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.
Cardinal de Retz
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112. Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which
follows him.
Jean Paul Richter
113. We are never so happy or unhappy as we imagine.
Francois duc la Rochefoucauld
114. Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
Francois duc la Rochefoucauld
115. Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not
accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each
humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers
Leo Rosten
116. Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo Rosten
117. Satire is focused bitterness.
Leo Rosten
118. Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means
that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
Leo Rosten
119. The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expectingotherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Theodore Rubin
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120. Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
George Santayana
121. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
122. Fanatacism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your
aim.
George Santayana
123. Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself.
Kajetan von Schlaggenberg
124. Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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125. Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Dr Robert Schuller
126. The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for
it.
David Searles
127. All art is but immitation of nature.
Seneca
128. We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the
responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
129. Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
130. A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.William Shedd
131. Men of ill judgement oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Sophocles
132. To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Sophocles
133. The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson
134. Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Publius Syrus
135. Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publius Syrus
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136. The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.Rabindranath Tagore
137. Beauty, more than bitternessMakes the heart break.
Sara Teasdale
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138. I am a part of all that I have seen.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
139. There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it
reluctantly.
Terence
140. Nothing is said that has not been said before.
--Terence (185-159 B.C.)
141. Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords
him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau
142. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is wherethey should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
143. There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
--James Thurber
144. Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
--Alvin Toffler
145. Not all who wander are lost.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
146. Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
Harry Truman
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147. Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become
our very flesh.
Paul Valery
148. In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.
Margaret of Valois
149. Death twitches my ear. 'Live,' he says, 'I am coming.'
--Virgil
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150. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
--Karl Wallenda
151. One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
Lew Wallace
152. And from the discontent of one manThe world's best progress springs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
153. Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and
he will tell the truth.
Oscar Wilde
154. There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no oneelse has a right to blame us.
Oscar Wilde
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155. Surrounding yourself with dwarfs does not make you a giant.
Yiddish Proverb
156. There is no god like one's stomach: We must sacrifice to it every day.
Yoruba Saying
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157. There is more stupidity around than hydrogen, and it has a longer shelf life.
Frank Zappa
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