| Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. -- Oscar Wilde |
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Wilde, OscarEra:
1854 |
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| Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation. -- Charles Evans Hughes |
| Author:
Hughes, Charles E.Era:
1862 |
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| A good indignation brings out all one's powers. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author:
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. -- Voltaire |
| Author:
VoltaireEra:
1694 |
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| I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. -- Abraham Lincoln |
| Author:
Lincoln, AbrahamEra:
1809 |
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| Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination. -- Benjamin Franklin |
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Franklin, BenjaminEra:
1706 |
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| The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. -- Albert Pike |
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Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| Of that Equilibrium between Authority and Individual Action which constitutes Free Government, be settling on immutable foundations Liberty with Obedience to Law, Equality with Subjection to Authority, and Fraternity with Subordination to the Wisest and the Best: and of that Equilibrium between the Active Energy of the Will of the Present, expressed by the Vote of the People, and the Passive Stability and Permanence of the Will of the Past, expressed in constitutions of government, written or unwritten, and in laws and customs, gray with age and sanctified by time, as precedents and authority. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. -- Abraham Lincoln |
| Author:
Lincoln, AbrahamEra:
1809 |
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| The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the Bitch-Goddess success. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease. -- William James |
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James, WilliamEra:
1842 |
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| Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination. -- Sivananda |
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SivanandaEra:
1887 |
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| This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. -- Winston Churchill |
| Author:
Churchill, WinstonEra:
1874 |
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| There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author:
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. -- Thomas Cooper |
| Author:
Cooper, ThomasEra:
1759 |
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| Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws. -- Tupper |
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TupperEra:
1810 |
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| Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. -- Cicero |
| Author:
CiceroEra:
-106 |
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| When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it. -- Epictetus |
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EpictetusEra:
50 |
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| A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers. -- John F. Kennedy |
| Author:
Kennedy, John F.Era:
1917 |
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| He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -- Joseph Joubert |
| Author:
Joubert, JosephEra:
1754 |
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| 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 |
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| The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author:
Goethe, Johann VonEra:
1749 |
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| Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination. -- George Catlett Marshall |
| Author:
Marshall, George C.Era:
1880 |
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| The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. -- John F. Kennedy |
| Author:
Kennedy, John F.Era:
1917 |
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| Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. -- Lord Chesterfield |
| Author:
Chesterfield, LordEra:
1694 |
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| A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author:
Goethe, Johann VonEra:
1749 |
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| 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 |
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