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  • George Santayana To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but not hurried.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • John Oxenham To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.
    John Oxenham
    English journalist, writer and poet (ps. of William Arthur Dunkerley) (1852 - 1941)
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  • Anna Louise Strong To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Abu Bakr To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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  • Emily Dickinson To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Boman Irani To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Adam Smith To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Bette Davis To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
    The lonely life: an autobiography
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Samuel Johnson To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ruth Gordon To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never - I repeat - never under any conditions face the facts.
    Ruth Gordon
    American actress (1896 - 1985)
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  • Oscar Wilde To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Abraham Lincoln To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Barbra Streisand To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • George Eliot To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • George Macdonald To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Samuel Butler To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Matthew Prior To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Samuel Johnson To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Honoré de Balzac To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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