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Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Higher Laws, 1854
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
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Jim Bishop
Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
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Marcel Marceau
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
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Brendan Francis
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
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Edward R. Murrow
Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
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William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
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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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George Jean Nathan
Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it--to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.
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Alfred Victor Vigny
Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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Plato
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
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Henry David Thoreau
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
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Irish Proverb
Twenty years a child twenty years running wild twenty years a mature man-and after that, praying.
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