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  • Walt Whitman To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Plutarch To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Buddha To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law [in the 14th century] prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below a fixed price, working late by artificial light, employing extra apprentices or wife and underage children, and advertising of wares or praising them to the detriment of others.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Baltasar Gracián To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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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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  • G. Woodberry To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
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  • George Edward Woodberry To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.
    George Edward Woodberry
    American poet and literary critic (1855 - 1930)
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  • Norman Douglas To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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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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  • John Dewey To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Anna Pavlova To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.
    Anna Pavlova
    Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the (1881 - 1931)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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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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  • Charles Horton Cooley To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Alan Paton To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Berthold Auerbach To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Lord George Byron To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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