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Quotations from Famous People - 16
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Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
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Ahad HaAm
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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Confucius, The Confucian Analects
I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
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Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
When we are unable to find tranquillity within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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William Shakespeare
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses,
then music, with her silver sound,
with speedy help doth lend redress.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
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A. J. Ayer
No moral system can rest solely on authority.
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Kenko Yoshida
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
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John Brown
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
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Logan Pearsall Smith
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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