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  • Benjamin Disraeli He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Johnson He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • H.G. Wells He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • John Bunyan He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Albert Einstein He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • James Tyler Kent He who considers disease results to be the disease itself, and expects to do away with these as diseases, is insane. It is an insanity in medicine, an insanity that has grown out of the milder forms of mental disorder in science, crazy whims.
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  • Thomas Szasz He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Victor Hugo He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Buddha He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Elbert Hubbard He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Horace He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Boethius He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad: his countenance unconquered he can shew.
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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