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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Horace A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Molière A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Thomas Paine A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • C. S. Lewis A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
    The problem of pain p. 41
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Johnson A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • P. D. James A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Napoleon A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Barbara de Angelis A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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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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  • Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
    Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann
    Swiss philosopher, physician and writer (1728 - 1795)
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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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  • William Shenstone A poet that fails in writing becomes often a morose critic. The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • Patricia Neal A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
    Patricia Neal
    American actress (1926 - 2010)
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  • George Orwell A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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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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  • Aristotle A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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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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  • Arthur Guiterman Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before.
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