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Francis Bacon
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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Charles Lamb
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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Cornelius Tacitus
That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Josiah Gilbert Holland
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), from The Divine, 1783
Noble be man, Helpful and good!
For that alone
Sets him apart
From every other creature
On earth.
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Robert E. Lee
There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.
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Albert Pike
A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
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Muhammad Ali on the occasion of one of his retirements
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
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Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!
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H. L. Mencken
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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Chinese Proverb
A fool judges people by the presents they give him.
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Franklin P. Jones
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
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