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| I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. -- John Stuart Mill |
| Author: Mill, John StuartEra: 1806 |
| The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. -- William James |
| Author: James, WilliamEra: 1842 |
| The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide. -- H. P. Blavatsky |
| Author: Blavatsky, H. P.Era: 1831 |
| A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author: Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra: 1803 |
| There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them. -- Maxim Gorky |
| Author: Gorky, MaximEra: 1868 |
| There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. -- Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Author: Napoleon IEra: 1769 |
| The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science? -- Nagarjuna |
| Author: NagarjunaEra: 100 |
| Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight. -- Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Author: Napoleon IEra: 1769 |
| To wish to be well is a part of becoming well. -- Seneca |
| Author: SenecaEra: -4 |
| An honest man is always a child. -- Martial |
| Author: MartialEra: 43 |
| The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. -- John Stuart Mill |
| Author: Mill, John StuartEra: 1806 |
| March to the battle-field, The foe is now before us; Each heart is Freedom's shield, And heaven is shining o'er us. -- Barry O'Meara |
| Author: O'Meara, BarryEra: 1786 |
| The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider...The riders contend for its possession. -- Martin Luther |
| Author: Luther, MartinEra: 1483 |
| I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. -- Martial |
| Author: MartialEra: 43 |
| Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity. -- Upanishads |
| Author: UpanishadsEra: -800 |
| The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance. -- Owen Feltham |
| Author: Feltham, OwenEra: 1602 |
| The Soul is made of consciousness and mind; it is made of life and vision. It is made of the earth and the waters; it is made of air and space. It is made of light and darkness; it is made of desire and peace. It is made of anger and love; it is made of virtue and vice. It is made of all that is near; it is made of all that is afar. It is made of all. -- Upanishads |
| Author: UpanishadsEra: -800 |
| The Universe should be deemed an immense Being, always living, always moved and always moving in an eternal activity inherent in itself, and which, subordinate to no foreign cause, is communicated to all its parts, connects them together, and makes the world of things a complete and perfect whole. -- Albert Pike |
| Author: Pike, AlbertEra: 1809 |
| Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater |
| Author: Lavater, Johann KasparEra: 1741 |
| How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! -- Robert Browning |
| Author: Browning, RobertEra: 1812 |
| I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. -- Bernard Mannes Baruch |
| Author: Baruch, Bernard MannesEra: 1870 |
| Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. -- Baltasar Gracian |
| Author: Gracian, BaltasarEra: 1601 |
| What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. -- Robert G. Ingersoll |
| Author: Ingersoll, Robert G.Era: 1833 |
| My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. -- George Washington |
| Author: Washington, GeorgeEra: 1732 |
| Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. -- Sivananda |
| Author: SivanandaEra: 1887 |
| Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. -- Gamaliel Bailey |
| Author: Bailey, GamalielEra: 1816 |
| The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express -- Francis Bacon |
| Author: Bacon, FrancisEra: 1561 |
| No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it. -- Charles C. Colton |
| Author: Colton, Charles C.Era: 1780 |
| Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. -- arthur Schopenhauer |
| Author: Schopenhauer, ArthurEra: 1788 |
| So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise. -- Jonathan Swift |
| Author: Swift, JonathanEra: 1667 |
| Though one sits in meditation in a particular place, the Self in him can exercise its influence far away. Though still, it moves everywhere...The Self cannot be known by anyone who desists not from unrighteous ways, controls not his senses, stills not his mind, and practices not meditation. -- Lu Yen |
| Author: Yen, LuEra: 800 |
| Think, and be careful what thou art within; For there is sin in the desire of sin; Think, and be thankful, in a different case; For there is grace in the desire of grace. -- John Byrom |
| Author: Byrom, JohnEra: 1692 |
| The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. -- Thomas Jefferson |
| Author: Jefferson, ThomasEra: 1743 |
| Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame. -- Baltasar Gracian |
| Author: Gracian, BaltasarEra: 1601 |
| Never rail at the world, it is just as we make it,- We see not the flower if we sow not the seed; And as for ill-luck, why, it's just as we take it,- The heart that's in earnest no bars can impede. -- Charles Swain |
| Author: Swain, CharlesEra: 1803 |
| To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author: Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra: 1803 |
| What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! -- Jeremy Taylor |
| Author: Taylor, JeremyEra: 1613 |
| One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart. -- Pierre Reverdy |
| Author: Reverdy, PierreEra: 1889 |
| Labour not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was coming; so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. -- Akhenaton |
| Author: AkhenatonEra: -1375 |
| And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee: So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me. -- Bret Harte |
| Author: Harte, BretEra: 1836 |
| Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire. -- Lord Byron |
| Author: Byron, LordEra: 1788 |
| To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. -- Alexander Pope |
| Author: Pope, AlexanderEra: 1688 |
| Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. -- Buddha |
| Author: BuddhaEra: -568 |
| There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. -- E. B. White |
| Author: White, E. B.Era: 1899 |
| Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. -- Stuart Chase |
| Author: Chase, StuartEra: 1888 |
| The existentialist says at once that man is anguish. -- Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Author: Sartre, Jean-PaulEra: 1905 |
| Oh hast thou forgotten this day we must part? It may be for years and it may be forever; Oh why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart? -- Julia Crawford |
| Author: Crawford, JuliaEra: 1800 |
| The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe. -- Eliza Cook |
| Author: Cook, ElizaEra: 1818 |
| The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits. -- H. L. Mencken |
| Author: Mencken, H. L.Era: 1880 |
| Philosophy is the art of living. -- Plutarch |
| Author: PlutarchEra: 46 |
| art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus. -- William Blake |
| Author: Blake, WilliamEra: 1757 |
| Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st taste His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou was blind before: Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heart Made pure shall relish with divine delight Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought. -- William Cowper |
| Author: Cowper, WilliamEra: 1731 |
| Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth. -- H. L. Mencken |
| Author: Mencken, H. L.Era: 1880 |
| Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company. -- Jonathan Swift |
| Author: Swift, JonathanEra: 1667 |
| To hide her cares her only art; her pleasure, pleasures to impart. -- Thomas Gray |
| Author: Gray, ThomasEra: 1716 |
| Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest. -- Quarles |
| Author: QuarlesEra: 1592 |
| A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Author: Longfellow, Henry WadsworthEra: 1807 |
| To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. -- Henry Ward Beecher |
| Author: Beecher, Henry WardEra: 1813 |
| Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness. -- Hung Tzu-ch'eng |
| Author: Tzu-ch'eng, HungEra: 1593 |
| Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. -- Mark Twain |
| Author: Twain, MarkEra: 1835 |
| The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy. -- Giuseppe Garibaldi |
| Author: Garibaldi, GiuseppeEra: 1807 |
| One must act in painting as in life, directly. -- Pablo Picasso |
| Author: Picasso, PabloEra: 1881 |
| Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman. -- Mencius |
| Author: MenciusEra: -371 |
| Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. -- Daniel Webster |
| Author: Webster, DanielEra: 1782 |
| The best man in his dwelling loves the earth. In his heart, he loves what is profound. In his associations, he loves humanity. In his words, he loves faithfulness. In government, he loves order. In handling affairs, he loves competence. In his activities, he loves timeliness. It is because he does not compete that he is without reproach. -- Lao-Tzu |
| Author: Lao-TzuEra: -604 |
| He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. -- John Ruskin |
| Author: Ruskin, JohnEra: 1819 |
| I have observed, that in comedy, the best actor plays the part of the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the hero, or fine gentleman. So, in this farce of life, wise men pass their time in mirth, whilst fools only are serious. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author: Johnson, SamuelEra: 1709 |
| Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. -- Joseph Hall |
| Author: Hall, JosephEra: 1574 |
| In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. -- The Talmud |
| Author: Talmud, TheEra: -500 |
| From of old the things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has become spiritual; The Valley by unity has become full; All things by unity have come into existence. -- Lao-Tzu |
| Author: Lao-TzuEra: -604 |
| Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. -- Sigmund Freud |
| Author: Freud, SigmundEra: 1856 |
| Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. -- Homer |
| Author: HomerEra: -700 |
| The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. -- Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Author: Napoleon IEra: 1769 |
| In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. -- Douglas Macarthur |
| Author: MacArthur, DouglasEra: 1880 |
| Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams. -- Jacques Barzun |
| Author: Barzun, JacquesEra: 1907 |
| The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. -- Pythagoras |
| Author: PythagorasEra: -582 |
| Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. -- Antoine Rivarol |
| Author: Rivarol, AntoineEra: 1753 |
| How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The great part of abstract terms are shadows that hide a vacuum. -- Joseph Joubert |
| Author: Joubert, JosephEra: 1754 |
| True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure. The spirit is thought; thought is the heart; the heart is the fire; the fire is the Elixir. -- Lu Yen |
| Author: Yen, LuEra: 800 |
| Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy. Then only you can manifest it externally. Then only, those who come in contact with you, will be benefited by your vibrations of peace and harmony. -- Sivananda |
| Author: SivanandaEra: 1887 |
| For his heart was in his work, and the heart Giveth grace unto every art. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Author: Longfellow, Henry WadsworthEra: 1807 |
| If the thoughts are absolutely tranquil the heavenly heart can be seen. The heavenly heart lies between sun and moon (i.e. between the two eyes). It is the home of the inner light. To make light circulate is the deepest and most wonderful secret. The light is easy to move, but difficult to fix. If it is made to circulate long enought, then it crystallizes itself; that is the natural spirit body... -- Lu Yen |
| Author: Yen, LuEra: 800 |
| It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. -- W. Somerset Maugham |
| Author: Maugham, W. SomersetEra: 1874 |
| Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. -- Robert Burton |
| Author: Burton, RobertEra: 1576 |
| As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart sustaineth him; and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out. -- Akhenaton |
| Author: AkhenatonEra: -1375 |
| A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author: Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra: 1803 |
| We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them. -- Philip Rieff |
| Author: Rieff, PhilipEra: 1922 |
| It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author: Wilde, OscarEra: 1854 |
| A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. -- John Stuart Mill |
| Author: Mill, John StuartEra: 1806 |
| art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. -- Johann Von Schiller |
| Author: Schiller, Johann VonEra: 1759 |
| An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses. Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author: Gita, BhagavadEra: -400 |
| I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings--iT's All A Miracle. -- arthur Rubinstein |
| Author: Rubinstein, ArthurEra: 1887 |
| In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. -- Winston Churchill |
| Author: Churchill, WinstonEra: 1874 |
| The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; The Named is the mother of all things. Therefore let there always be non-being so we may see their subtlety, And let there always be being so we may see their outcome. The two are the same, But after they are produced, they have different names. They both may be called deep and profound. Deeper and more profound, The door of all subtleties! -- Lao-Tzu |
| Author: Lao-TzuEra: -604 |
| Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. -- The Dhammapada |
| Author: Dhammapada, TheEra: -300 |
| We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party. -- Mahatma Gandhi |
| Author: Gandhi, MahatmaEra: 1869 |
| A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author: Wilde, OscarEra: 1854 |
| Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
| Author: Holmes Sr., Oliver WendellEra: 1809 |
| This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: "Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth. -- Benito Mussolini |
| Author: Mussolini, BenitoEra: 1883 |
| Every artist writes his own autobiography. -- Havelock Ellis |
| Author: Ellis, HavelockEra: 1859 |
| The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. -- Sir Ralph Richardson |
| Author: Richardson, Sir RalphEra: 1902 |
| Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. -- Simonides |
| Author: SimonidesEra: -556 |
| O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. -- Horace |
| Author: HoraceEra: -65 |
| The heart of a man to the heart of a maid - Light of my tents, be fleet - Morning awaits at the end of the world, And the world is all at our feet. -- Rudyard Kipling |
| Author: Kipling, RudyardEra: 1865 |
| If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest the heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave. -- Chinese Proverb |
| Author: Proverb, ChineseEra: 0 |
| The beginning is the most important part of the work. -- Plato |
| Author: PlatoEra: -427 |
| There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers. -- Gerald Massey |
| Author: Massey, GeraldEra: 1828 |
| art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. -- Paul Gauguin |
| Author: Gauguin, PaulEra: 1848 |
| O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! -- Sir Walter Scott |
| Author: Scott, Sir WalterEra: 1771 |
| Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. -- Bertrand Russell |
| Author: Russell, BertrandEra: 1872 |
| Since time is not a person we can overtake when he is past, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author: Goethe, Johann VonEra: 1749 |
| The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. -- Saadi |
| Author: SaadiEra: 1184 |
| Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Author: Longfellow, Henry WadsworthEra: 1807 |
| The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart. He does not think beforehand that his words shall be sincere, nor that his acts shall be resolute; he simply abides in the right. -- Mencius |
| Author: MenciusEra: -371 |
| The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities. -- Benjamin N. Cardozo |
| Author: Cardozo, Benjamin N.Era: 1870 |
| Love is space and time measured by the heart. -- Marcel Proust |
| Author: Proust, MarcelEra: 1871 |
| Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide. -- John Dryden |
| Author: Dryden, JohnEra: 1631 |
| If thou wouldst preserve understanding and health to old age, avoid the allurements of Voluptuousness, and fly from her temptations...For if thou hearkenest unto the words of the Adversary, thou art deceived and betrayed. The joy which she promiseth changeth to madness, and her enjoyments lead on to diseases and death. -- Akhenaton |
| Author: AkhenatonEra: -1375 |
| I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. -- Douglas Macarthur |
| Author: MacArthur, DouglasEra: 1880 |
| The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. -- William Hazlitt |
| Author: Hazlitt, WilliamEra: 1778 |
| What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. -- Marcus Aurelius |
| Author: Aurelius, MarcusEra: 121 |
| Wars are caused by undefended wealth. -- Douglas Macarthur |
| Author: MacArthur, DouglasEra: 1880 |
| No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. -- Seneca |
| Author: SenecaEra: -4 |
| Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realise the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself. -- Sivananda |
| Author: SivanandaEra: 1887 |
| Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. -- George Santayana |
| Author: Santayana, GeorgeEra: 1863 |
| The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. -- Virginia Woolf |
| Author: Woolf, VirginiaEra: 1882 |
| The counterfeit and counterpart Of Nature reproduced in art. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Author: Longfellow, Henry WadsworthEra: 1807 |
| He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author: Gita, BhagavadEra: -400 |
| What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. -- Bruce Barton |
| Author: Barton, BruceEra: 1886 |
| My trade and art is to live. -- Michel De Montaigne |
| Author: Montaigne, Michel DeEra: 1533 |
| He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author: NagarjunaEra: 100 |
| Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. -- Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Author: Sartre, Jean-PaulEra: 1905 |
| He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly? -- Lord Byron |
| Author: Byron, LordEra: 1788 |
| Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. -- Voltaire |
| Author: VoltaireEra: 1694 |
| Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart. -- Thomas Boston |
| Author: Boston, ThomasEra: 1676 |
| All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. -- Plato |
| Author: PlatoEra: -427 |
| The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. -- William Faulkner |
| Author: Faulkner, WilliamEra: 1897 |
| Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. -- Samuel Lover |
| Author: Lover, SamuelEra: 1797 |
| As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him. -- Akhenaton |
| Author: AkhenatonEra: -1375 |
| Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. -- I Ching |
| Author: Ching, IEra: -1150 |
| Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within. -- Solomon Trismosin |
| Author: Trismosin, SolomonEra: 1580 |
| I am a part of all that I have met. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Author: Tennyson, Alfred LordEra: 1809 |
| Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. -- William Hazlitt |
| Author: Hazlitt, WilliamEra: 1778 |
| Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. -- Sinclair Lewis |
| Author: Lewis, SinclairEra: 1885 |
| Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Author: Tennyson, Alfred LordEra: 1809 |
| Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. -- Elbert Hubbard |
| Author: Hubbard, ElbertEra: 1856 |
| We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from...Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. -- Lucretius |
| Author: LucretiusEra: -94 |
| Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life. -- Akhenaton |
| Author: AkhenatonEra: -1375 |
| In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| Author: Bulwer-Lytton, Edward RobertEra: 1803 |
| Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. -- Daniel Webster |
| Author: Webster, DanielEra: 1782 |
| Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart and not the brain That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Author: Longfellow, Henry WadsworthEra: 1807 |
| Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. -- Albert Pike |
| Author: Pike, AlbertEra: 1809 |
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