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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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George Bernard Shaw
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
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Miguel de Cervantes
It is good to live and learn.
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Tom Stoppard
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 130
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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Jason Kaufmann
The best way to predict the future is to create it
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Rabindranath Tagore
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.
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Saint Francis of Assisi, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
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Jonathan Swift
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Francis Quarles
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
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C. S. Lewis
There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.
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