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Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
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Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.
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Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Promote yourself, but do not demote another.
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Israel Salanter
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
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Simon Cameron (1799 - 1889)
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), The Black Cottage
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), Hyperion, 1839
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
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Bob Dylan (1941 - )
Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
People fail forward to success.
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Mary Kay Ash
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
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Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
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Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Emotions"
A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
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William Penn (1644 - 1718)
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
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Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
Be not slow to visit the sick.
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Ecclesiastes
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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