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Ruth Stout
Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.
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Anon.
Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
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Anon.
Want to make your computer go really fast Throw it out a window.
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William Wordsworth
Wisdom and spirit of the Universe Thou soul is the eternity of thought That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.
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Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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Albert Einstein
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
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Bertrand Russell
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
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James Arthur Baldwin
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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George Santayana
Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.
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Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, before we too into the dust descend.
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Confucius
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
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Bob Edwards
Now I know what a statesman is he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
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