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- Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), The Prince
- The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
- Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
- I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964
- I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. - Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918), "Trees" (poem), 1914
- Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961), "On the Psychology of the Unconciousness", 1917
- It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Erewhon (1872)
- My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light. - Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920
- This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
- Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Richard III", Act 1 scene 1
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