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  • William Dean Howells A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.
    William Dean Howells
    American writer, criticus (1837 - 1920)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man's what he thinks about all day long
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him.
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Mark Twain A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Andrew Murray A readiness to believe every promise implicitly, to obey every command unhesitatingly, to stand perfect and complete in all the will of God, is the only true spirit of Bible study.
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  • Bertrand Russell A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • David Gemmell A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.
    Source: Quest For Lost Heroes (2011) 43
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Bruce Lee A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Mark Twain A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Epictetus A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Michel Eyquem de Montaigne A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
    Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Camille Paglia A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Catton Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Mark Twain Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Groucho Marx Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Napoleon Hill All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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