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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.: James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958)
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All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.: Robert Morley
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When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.: Lillian Eichler Watson
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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.: Chinese Proverb
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Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.: Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
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Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.: Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)
Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.: Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912)
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.: Spanish Proverb
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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.: John Barrymore (1882 - 1942), last words