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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature"
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.
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Woodrow Wilson
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
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Barbara Tuchman
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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Charles Grodin
Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
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Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
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Theodore Roosevelt
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
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Georges Duhamel
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
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Richard Bach
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
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John Erskine
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
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Oscar Fingall O\'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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