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  • Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
  • You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
  • Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds there.
  • The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.
  • The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
  • If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.
  • Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.
  • A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
  • Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
  • A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Matthew Arnold Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Nicholas Boileau A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
    Nicholas Boileau
    French poet and critic (1636 - 1711)
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  • Fred A. Allen A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
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    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • John F. Kennedy A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Francis Bacon A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Alice Stone Blackwell A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
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  • Nelson Mandela After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb
    Long way to freedom
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Joseph Joubert Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Joseph Conrad An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
    An Artist of the Floating World (2009) 119
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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