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Stephen S. Wise
Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
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A. E. Houseman
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
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Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Henry David Thoreau
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
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John Adams
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
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Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2
Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.
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Dorothy Nevill
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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Unknown
Life is too short to settle for anything less than a 110 effort
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Richard Buckminster Fuller
God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.
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Pierre Corneille
When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.
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Gustave Flaubert, 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.
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