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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Fred A. Allen A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Oscar Wilde Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Lydia M. Child A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Billy Graham I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Greg Anderson Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, none knew so well as I: for he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John W. Gardner Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Henry David Thoreau For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant If you can’t learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • John F. Kennedy Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • E. M. Cioran Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Amelia Earhart The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Robert Frost "Skepticism", is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, "Well, what have we here?"
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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