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Baltasar Gracian
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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Madam Guizot
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
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Kalidasa
Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn.
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Steven Wright
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
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Carl Gustav Jung
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'
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St, Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821) Foundress of the Sisters of Charity, USA, Speech given in the Diocese of Baltimore
Live simply, so that all may simply live.
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Edmund Burke
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
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Dorothy Bernard
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
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Christopher Lasch
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
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Maya Angelou
For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
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Bertrand Russell
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.
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Margaret Fairless Barber
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
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