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| There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing he was educated in. -- will Rogers |
| Author: Rogers, WillEra: 1879 |
| The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. -- william James |
| Author: James, WilliamEra: 1842 |
| This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it. -- Ugo Betti |
| Author: Betti, UgoEra: 1892 |
| Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. -- Hare & Charles |
| Author: Hare and CharlesEra: 1830 |
| Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Luck affects everything. let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. -- Ovid |
| Author: OvidEra: -43 |
| As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. -- Socrates |
| Author: SocratesEra: -469 |
| Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. -- Sara Teasdale |
| Author: Teasdale, SaraEra: 1884 |
| To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. -- william Blake |
| Author: Blake, WilliamEra: 1757 |
| Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. -- william Temple |
| Author: Temple, WilliamEra: 1628 |
| Marriage is the most natural state of man, and...the state in which you will find solid happiness. -- Benjamin Franklin |
| Author: Franklin, BenjaminEra: 1706 |
| Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles. -- william Feather |
| Author: Feather, WilliamEra: 1888 |
| Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. -- Euripides |
| Author: EuripidesEra: -480 |
| 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 |
| To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglars in politics as well as mortals. -- william Penn |
| Author: Penn, WilliamEra: 1644 |
| As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. -- Voltaire |
| Author: VoltaireEra: 1694 |
| Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| Desire of having is the sin of covetousness. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. -- william Shakespeare, As You Like It |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants. -- Lao-Tzu |
| Author: Lao-TzuEra: -604 |
| O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. -- william Cowper |
| Author: Cowper, WilliamEra: 1731 |
| For there was never yet a philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently. -- william Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure. -- Buddha |
| Author: BuddhaEra: -568 |
| Learning is its own exceeding great reward. -- william Hazlitt |
| Author: Hazlitt, WilliamEra: 1778 |
| The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. -- The Hitopadesa |
| Author: Hitopadesa, TheEra: 600 |
| Thought is free. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| Revenge...is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion. -- Jeremy Taylor |
| Author: Taylor, JeremyEra: 1613 |
| No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author: Wilde, OscarEra: 1854 |
| And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. -- william S. Gilbert |
| Author: Gilbert, William S.Era: 1540 |
| War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. -- Carl von Clausewitz |
| Author: von Clausewitz, CarlEra: 1780 |
| The greatest pleasure of life is love. -- william Temple |
| Author: Temple, WilliamEra: 1628 |
| You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. -- James L. Allen |
| Author: Allen, James L.Era: 1849 |
| They that touch pitch will be defiled. -- william Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| True nobility is exempt from fear. -- william Shakespeare, Henry VI |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. -- H. L. Mencken |
| Author: Mencken, H. L.Era: 1880 |
| You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you. -- Joseph Joubert |
| Author: Joubert, JosephEra: 1754 |
| Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| Strive with thy thoughts unclean before they overpower thee. Use them as they will thee, for if thou sparest them and they take root and grow, know well, these thoughts will overpower and kill thee. Beware! Suffer not their shadow to approach. For it will grow, increase in size and power, and then this thing of darkness will absorb thy being before thou hast well realized the black foul monster's presence. -- H. P. Blavatsky |
| Author: Blavatsky, H. P.Era: 1831 |
| Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. -- Plutarch |
| Author: PlutarchEra: 46 |
| Adversity breaks the inferior man's will but only bends the superior man's spirit. Outward influence is denied the great man, who accordingly uses words sparingly but retains his central position. -- I Ching |
| Author: Ching, IEra: -1150 |
| I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic. -- william Drummond |
| Author: Drummond, WilliamEra: 1585 |
| Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. -- Christina Rossetti |
| Author: Rossetti, ChristinaEra: 1830 |
| The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. -- william Shakespeare, As You Like It |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home. -- william Hazlitt |
| Author: Hazlitt, WilliamEra: 1778 |
| 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 |
| If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he will end in certainties. -- Francis Bacon |
| Author: Bacon, FrancisEra: 1561 |
| My patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer, with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed. -- Epictetus |
| Author: EpictetusEra: 50 |
| There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good. -- Menander |
| Author: MenanderEra: -342 |
| The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. -- william E. Borah |
| Author: Borah, William E.Era: 1865 |
| 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 |
| Author: James, WilliamEra: 1842 |
| Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. -- william Cowper |
| Author: Cowper, WilliamEra: 1731 |
| Exuberance is beauty. -- william Blake |
| Author: Blake, WilliamEra: 1757 |
| Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. -- william Wordsworth |
| Author: Wordsworth, WilliamEra: 1770 |
| To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. -- william Hazlitt |
| Author: Hazlitt, WilliamEra: 1778 |
| Weariness can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth finds the down pillow hard. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it. -- Seneca |
| Author: SenecaEra: -4 |
| Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. -- william Temple |
| Author: Temple, WilliamEra: 1628 |
| Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love. -- william Shakespeare, The Taming of The Shrew |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. -- william Hazlitt |
| Author: Hazlitt, WilliamEra: 1778 |
| Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. -- will Rogers |
| Author: Rogers, WillEra: 1879 |
| Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool. -- Voltaire |
| Author: VoltaireEra: 1694 |
| Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his own money. -- will Rogers |
| Author: Rogers, WillEra: 1879 |
| Men are great or small in stature as it pleases God. But their nature is great or small as it pleases themselves. Men are not born, some with great souls and some with little souls. One by taking thought cannot add to his stature, but he can enlarge his soul. By an act of the will he can make himself a moral giant, or dwarf himself to a pygmy. -- Albert Pike |
| Author: Pike, AlbertEra: 1809 |
| 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 |
| Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid...for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. -- Deuteronomy |
| Author: DeuteronomyEra: -1200 |
| As an enemy is made more fierce by our flight, so Pain grows proud to see us knuckle under it. She will surrender upon much better terms to those who make head against her. -- Michel De Montaigne |
| Author: Montaigne, Michel DeEra: 1533 |
| It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. -- Oliver Cromwell |
| Author: Cromwell, OliverEra: 1599 |
| He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men. -- Socrates |
| Author: SocratesEra: -469 |
| Peace will come soon and come to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have to be proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their cases and pay the cost. -- Abraham Lincoln |
| Author: Lincoln, AbrahamEra: 1809 |
| To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. -- Henry Ward Beecher |
| Author: Beecher, Henry WardEra: 1813 |
| Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! -- william Winter |
| Author: Winter, WilliamEra: 1836 |
| Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater |
| Author: Lavater, Johann KasparEra: 1741 |
| Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| Author: Bulwer-Lytton, Edward RobertEra: 1803 |
| 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 |
| We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal. -- Anatole France |
| Author: France, AnatoleEra: 1844 |
| We cannot all be masters, nor all masters can be truly followed. -- william Shakespeare, Othello |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. -- william Hazlitt |
| Author: Hazlitt, WilliamEra: 1778 |
| In a false quarrel there is no true valor. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| There is nothing good or evil save in the will. -- Epictetus |
| Author: EpictetusEra: 50 |
| The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and "consciousness" cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and "will" cannot evolve involuntarily. The evolution of man is the evolution of his power of doing, and "doing" cannot be the result of things which "happen." -- Gurdjieff |
| Author: GurdjieffEra: 1873 |
| Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius |
| Author: ConfuciusEra: -551 |
| Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it...the basest of all things is to be afraid. -- william Faulkner |
| Author: Faulkner, WilliamEra: 1897 |
| 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 |
| There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake. -- Jonathan Swift |
| Author: Swift, JonathanEra: 1667 |
| Man has his will, - but woman has her way. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
| Author: Holmes Sr., Oliver WendellEra: 1809 |
| 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 |
| In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing. -- will Rogers |
| Author: Rogers, WillEra: 1879 |
| Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. -- Horace |
| Author: HoraceEra: -65 |
| What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star. -- william Wordsworth |
| Author: Wordsworth, WilliamEra: 1770 |
| There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about. -- william Hazlitt |
| Author: Hazlitt, WilliamEra: 1778 |
| Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor. -- Grenville Kleiser |
| Author: Kleiser, GrenvilleEra: 1868 |
| When it comes to winning, you need the skill and the will. -- Frank Tyger |
| Author: Tyger, FrankEra: 1950 |
| A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it. -- will Rogers |
| Author: Rogers, WillEra: 1879 |
| Principle is a passion for truth. -- william Hazlitt |
| Author: Hazlitt, WilliamEra: 1778 |
| One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. -- Niccolo Machiavelli |
| Author: Machiavelli, NiccoloEra: 1469 |
| Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| It is a wise father that knows his own child. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author: Wilde, OscarEra: 1854 |
| Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. -- Buddha |
| Author: BuddhaEra: -568 |
| Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality. -- Sivananda |
| Author: SivanandaEra: 1887 |
| Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom;you will have everything. -- Sivananda |
| Author: SivanandaEra: 1887 |
| If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. -- Confucius |
| Author: ConfuciusEra: -551 |
| 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 |
| Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| 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 |
| Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author: Johnson, SamuelEra: 1709 |
| Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigor three hours a day will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author: Johnson, SamuelEra: 1709 |
| When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| will is the dynamic soul-force. -- Sivananda |
| Author: SivanandaEra: 1887 |
| Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny. -- Alfred A. Montapert |
| Author: Montapert, Alfred A.Era: 1910 |
| Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. -- Thomas Carlyle |
| Author: Carlyle, ThomasEra: 1795 |
| If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance. -- william S. Gilbert |
| Author: Gilbert, William S.Era: 1540 |
| The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. -- Henry Ward Beecher |
| Author: Beecher, Henry WardEra: 1813 |
| This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity. -- william Jennings Bryan |
| Author: Bryan, William J.Era: 1860 |
| The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. -- Edmund Burke |
| Author: Burke, EdmundEra: 1729 |
| The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean. -- Saskya Pandita |
| Author: Pandita, SaskyaEra: 1182 |
| To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like. -- william Feather |
| Author: Feather, WilliamEra: 1888 |
| 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 |
| Author: Millay, Edna Saint VincentEra: 1892 |
| If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. -- Michel De Montaigne |
| Author: Montaigne, Michel DeEra: 1533 |
| Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. -- Benjamin Franklin |
| Author: Franklin, BenjaminEra: 1706 |
| I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, will tread aside, and let the reptile live. -- william Cowper |
| Author: Cowper, WilliamEra: 1731 |
| Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson |
| Author: Babson, RogerEra: 1875 |
| Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure. -- Thomas Alva Edison |
| Author: Edison, Thomas A.Era: 1847 |
| The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me. -- A. E. Housman |
| Author: Housman, A. E.Era: 1859 |
| The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. -- william Hazlitt |
| Author: Hazlitt, WilliamEra: 1778 |
| You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time - but most of the time they will make fools of themselves. -- Voltaire |
| Author: VoltaireEra: 1694 |
| Neither will the wave which has passed be called back; nor can the hour which has gone by return. -- Ovid |
| Author: OvidEra: -43 |
| 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. -- George Gordon, Lord Byron |
| Author: Byron, LordEra: 1788 |
| He who considers too much will perform little. -- Johann Von Schiller |
| Author: Schiller, Johann VonEra: 1759 |
| Sincerity is no test of truth - no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life? -- Tryon Edwards |
| Author: Edwards, TryonEra: 1809 |
| There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. -- Henry Ward Beecher |
| Author: Beecher, Henry WardEra: 1813 |
| If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever. -- Buddha |
| Author: BuddhaEra: -568 |
| Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others. -- william Hazlitt |
| Author: Hazlitt, WilliamEra: 1778 |
| Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
| Author: Holmes Sr., Oliver WendellEra: 1809 |
| Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day. -- Jesus Christ |
| Author: Christ, JesusEra: -6 |
| Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. -- Johann Von Schiller |
| Author: Schiller, Johann VonEra: 1759 |
| 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 |
| Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all. -- Walter Raleigh |
| Author: Raleigh, WalterEra: 1552 |
| If my theory of relativty is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. -- Albert Einstein |
| Author: Einstein, AlbertEra: 1879 |
| Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
| Author: Holmes Sr., Oliver WendellEra: 1809 |
| The venom clamors of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. -- william Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author: NagarjunaEra: 100 |
| Everything comes if a man will only wait. -- Tancred |
| Author: TancredEra: 1076 |
| Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. -- Aldous Huxley |
| Author: Huxley, AldousEra: 1894 |
| Justice delayed, is justice denied. -- william E. Gladstone |
| Author: Gladstone, William E.Era: 1809 |
| The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. -- Mark Twain |
| Author: Twain, MarkEra: 1835 |
| One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. -- william Hazlitt |
| Author: Hazlitt, WilliamEra: 1778 |
| If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. -- Confucius |
| Author: ConfuciusEra: -551 |
| The love of heaven makes one heavenly. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend. -- Nur 'Ali Shah |
| Author: Shah, Nur 'AliEra: 1797 |
| 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 |
| One always has time enough, if one will apply it well. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author: Goethe, Johann VonEra: 1749 |
| With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. -- william Shakespeare, Hamlet |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| Lawless are they that make their wills their law. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. -- Alexander Pope |
| Author: Pope, AlexanderEra: 1688 |
| He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, will never rise to fight again. -- James Ray |
| Author: Ray, JamesEra: 1746 |
| Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. -- Buddha |
| Author: BuddhaEra: -568 |
| Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun. -- Thomas Alva Edison |
| Author: Edison, Thomas A.Era: 1847 |
| If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. -- william Makepeace Thakeray |
| Author: Thackeray, William M.Era: 1811 |
| Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author: Goethe, Johann VonEra: 1749 |
| The Universe, which is the uttered Word of God, is infinite in extent. There is no empty space beyond creation on any side. The Universe, which is the Thought of God pronounced,never was not, since God never was inert; nor was, without thinking and creating. The forms of creation change, the suns and worlds live and die like the leaves and the insects, but the Universe itself is infinite and eternal, because God Is, Was, and will forever Be, and never did not think and create. -- Albert Pike |
| Author: Pike, AlbertEra: 1809 |
| The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. -- william Hazlitt |
| Author: Hazlitt, WilliamEra: 1778 |
| Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise; He who defers his work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay; Till the whole stream which stopped him should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on. -- Abraham Cowley |
| Author: Cowley, AbrahamEra: 1618 |
| Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything. -- william Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail. -- Navajo Song |
| Author: Navajo SongEra: 0 |
| It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author: Goethe, Johann VonEra: 1749 |
| For that is, and ever will be, the best of sayings: that the useful is the noble and the hurtful is the base. -- Plato |
| Author: PlatoEra: -427 |
| Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. -- will Durant |
| Author: Durant, WillEra: 1885 |
| Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away. -- Abraham Cowley |
| Author: Cowley, AbrahamEra: 1618 |
| Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain. -- william Henley |
| Author: Henley, WilliamEra: 1849 |
| The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author: NagarjunaEra: 100 |
| I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it. -- will Rogers |
| Author: Rogers, WillEra: 1879 |
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