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The Best Ten Thousand Quotes, Part 3
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    The Best Ten Thousand Quotes, Part 3 - Eric Landa

    The Best Ten Thousand Quotes

    part 3

    Copyright 2016 Eric Landa

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    Introduction

    I want to thank you and congratulate you for downloading this book The BEST ten thousand quotes part 3.

    This third book contains yet another ten thousand quotes from both famous and ordinary people covering a wide variety of things. And as in part 1 & 2, they’ll make your face frown, your mouth smile and probably make your fingers scratch your head every now and then.

    Thank you for downloading this book, I hope you’ll enjoy it!

    Eric Landa (www.ericlanda.com)

    Table of Content

    20001 - 21000 Quotes by: Yogi Berra, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jean Giraudoux and many others

    21001 - 22000 Quotes by: Ben Franklin, Aristotle Onassis, Albert Schweitzer and many others

    22001 - 23000 Quotes by: Casey Stengel, Henry David Thoreau, Dave Barry and many others

    23001 - 24000 Quotes by: Conan Doyle, William Congreve, Marcel Marceau and many others

    24001 - 25000 Quotes by: Peter Drucker, Rene Descartes, Peter Lynch and many others

    25001 - 26000 Quotes by: G. K. Chesterton, George Burns, Robert Frost and many others

    26001 - 27000 Quotes by: George Washington, T. S. Eliot, Carl Sagan and many others

    27001 - 28000 Quotes by: Joan Baez, James Arthur Baldwin, Lucille Ball and many others

    28001 - 29000 Quotes by: Alexander Graham Bell, Erma Bombeck and many others

    29001 - 30000 Quotes by: Charles De Gaulle, Marquis de Sade, John Denver and many others

    #20001

    The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, what Pierre Charron

    #20002

    I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. The Road Not Taken

    #20003

    The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. Don Herold

    #20004

    There is nobody as irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. Don Herold

    #20005

    This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything. Scott Reed

    #20006

    I have a spelling checker It came with my PC It plainly marks four my revue Mistakes I cannot sea. I’ve run this poem threw it, I’m s Janet Minor

    #20007

    We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. La Bruyere

    #20008

    Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us. La Bruyere

    #20009

    Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way La Bruyere

    #20010

    That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hand La Bruyere

    #20011

    There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the ma La Bruyere

    #20012

    No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. La Bruyere

    #20013This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude. La Bruyere

    #20014

    Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. La Bruyere

    #20015

    Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. La Bruyere

    #20016

    Slump I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting. Yogi Berra

    #20017

    It's deja vu all over again Yogi Berra

    #20018

    Half this game is 90 mental. Yogi Berra

    #20019

    It ain't over 'till it's over. Yogi Berra

    #20020

    Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. Yogi Berra

    #20021

    The future ain't what it used to be. Yogi Berra

    #20022

    You can observe a lot just by watching. Yogi Berra

    #20023

    This is like deja vu all over again. Yogi Berra

    #20024

    I didn't really say everything I said. Yogi Berra

    #20025

    When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra

    #20026

    If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em. Yogi Berra

    #20027

    Baseball is 90 mental, the other half is physical. Yogi Berra

    #20028

    No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded. Yogi Berra

    #20029

    Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. Octavio Paz

    #20030

    Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. Octavio Paz

    #20031

    'Art' is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game. Octavio Paz

    #20032

    There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone—m Richard Nelson Bolles

    #20033

    Up men to your posts don’t forget today that you are from old Virginia. Gen. George Pickett

    #20034

    To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. Wendell Berry

    #20035

    In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world. Wendell Berry

    #20036

    To change and to change for the better are two different things. German proverb

    #20037

    Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher. German proverb

    #20038

    No answer is also an answer. German proverb

    #20039

    It's not that age brings childhood back again, Age merely shows what children we remain. German proverb

    #20040

    Who begins too much accomplishes little. German proverb

    #20041

    A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. German proverb

    #20042

    One does evil enough when one does nothing good. German proverb

    #20043

    Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.) German proverb

    #20044

    Where there are no swamps there are no frogs. German proverb

    #20045

    Never give advice unless asked. German proverb

    #20046

    Love your neighbor, but don't tear down your fence. German proverb

    #20047

    The wise man has long ears and a short tongue. German proverb

    #20048

    A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit. German proverb

    #20049

    When the fox preaches, look to the geese. German proverb

    #20050

    The eyes believe themselves the ears believe other people. German proverb

    #20051

    Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart. German proverb

    #20052

    He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind. German proverb

    #20053

    God gives the nuts but he does not crack them. German proverb

    #20054

    Old birds are hard to pluck. German proverb

    #20055

    Whose bread I eat his song I sing. German proverb

    #20056

    Charity sees the need not the cause. German proverb

    #20057

    Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Sir Theodore Martin

    #20058

    Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. Richard Kemph

    #20059

    I am become Death, the destroyer of world .N.B. This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita. J. Robert Oppenheimer

    #20060

    Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. J. Robert Oppenheimer

    #20061

    Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead. Tommy Bolt

    #20062

    None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few month Kathleen Norris

    #20063

    In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary. Kathleen Norris

    #20064

    Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see t Kathleen Norris

    #20065

    Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state. Kathleen Norris

    #20066

    Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future. Kathleen Norris

    #20067

    If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being. Kathleen Norris

    #20068

    Illegitimis non carborundum.Lat. Don't let the bastards grind you down. Gen. Joseph Stilwell

    #20069

    Don't let the bastards grind you down. Gen. Joseph Stilwell

    #20070

    Author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come. Montesquieu

    #20071

    The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it. Edward W. Howe

    #20072

    If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old. Edward W. Howe

    #20073

    There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. Christine Lavin

    #20074

    Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20075

    The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20076

    Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20077

    Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20078

    A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20079

    Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20080

    A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20081

    It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20082

    Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20083

    All words are pegs to hang ideas on. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20084

    Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20085

    To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20086

    It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a sta Henry Ward Beecher

    #20087

    We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate Henry Ward Beecher

    #20088

    It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20089

    Repentance is another name for aspiration. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20090

    Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20091

    Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20092

    The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20093

    Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20094

    I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20095

    Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20096

    If a man cannot be a Christian in the place he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20097

    Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20098

    We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20099

    The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20100

    Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20101

    What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20102

    It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20103

    Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20104

    The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for Henry Ward Beecher

    #20105

    You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20106

    Where is human nature as weak as in the bookstore Henry Ward Beecher

    #20107

    Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20108

    The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a but. Henry Ward Beecher

    #20109

    Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire. Dante Alighieri

    #20110

    Through me you pass into the city of woe through me you pass into eternal pain through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the Dante Alighieri

    #20111

    For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act Dante Alighieri

    #20112

    There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault. Dante Alighieri

    #20113

    All hope abandon, ye who enter here Dante Alighieri

    #20114

    A great flame follows a little spark. Dante Alighieri

    #20115

    A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. Dante Alighieri

    #20116

    The experience of this sweet life. L'esperienza de questa dolce vita. Dante Alighieri

    #20117

    He listens well who takes notes. Dante Alighieri

    #20118

    There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. Dante Alighieri

    #20119

    Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. Dante Alighieri

    #20120

    If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. Dante Alighieri

    #20121

    In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straightway was lost. Dante Alighieri

    #20122

    O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall. Dante Alighieri

    #20123

    In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief. John Barrymore

    #20124

    Happiness sneaks through a door you didn't know that you left open. John Barrymore

    #20125

    America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks. John Barrymore

    #20126

    Die I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. John Barrymore

    #20127

    Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. John Barrymore

    #20128

    The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. Jean Giraudoux

    #20129

    A golf course is the epitome of all that is transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as p Jean Giraudoux

    #20130

    Only the mediocre are always at their best. Jean Giraudoux

    #20131

    The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. Jean Giraudoux

    #20132

    A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B. Fats Domino

    #20133

    Cyberspace A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation. William Gibson

    #20134

    The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. William Gibson

    #20135

    The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. William Gibson

    #20136

    The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. Theodore Rubin

    #20137

    As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Maurice Wilkes

    #20138

    In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and Geoffrey Cottrell

    #20139

    The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which Napoleon Hill

    #20140

    Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. Napoleon Hill

    #20141

    Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. Cynthia Nelms

    #20142

    Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

    #20143

    Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

    #20144

    People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten H. Jackson Brown Jr.

    #20145

    Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

    #20146

    When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

    #20147

    Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

    #20148

    Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, They think of you. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

    #20149

    Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

    #20150

    If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson

    #20151

    Because I could not stop for Death -- He kindly stopped for me -- The carriage held but just ourselves And immortality. Emily Dickinson

    #20152

    Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat. Emily Dickinson

    #20153

    We turn not older with years, but newer every day. Emily Dickinson

    #20154

    My friends are my estate. Emily Dickinson

    #20155

    I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. Emily Dickinson

    #20156

    They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. Emily Dickinson

    #20157

    Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all. Emily Dickinson

    #20158

    I dwell in possibility... Emily Dickinson

    #20159

    There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes-- Emily Dickinson

    #20160

    Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. Emily Dickinson

    #20161

    A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. Emily Dickinson

    #20162

    Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt Kahlil Gibran

    #20163

    Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only Kahlil Gibran

    #20164

    Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy after Kahlil Gibran

    #20165

    Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers. Kahlil Gibran

    #20166

    Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. Kahlil Gibran

    #20167

    Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. Kahlil Gibran

    #20168

    You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. Kahlil Gibran

    #20169

    We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble. Kahlil Gibran

    #20170

    Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. Kahlil Gibran

    #20171

    Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds. Kahlil Gibran

    #20172

    Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. Kahlil Gibran

    #20173

    Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. Kahlil Gibran

    #20174

    Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for the Kahlil Gibran

    #20175

    All that spirits desire, spirits attain. Kahlil Gibran

    #20176

    Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. Kahlil Gibran

    #20177

    Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing Kahlil Gibran

    #20178

    I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. Kahlil Gibran

    #20179

    I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and I Kahlil Gibran

    #20180

    If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. Kahlil Gibran

    #20181

    Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. Kahlil Gibran

    #20182

    Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. Kahlil Gibran

    #20183

    Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighbor Kahlil Gibran

    #20184

    Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Kahlil Gibran

    #20185

    What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters Kahlil Gibran

    #20186

    Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know myself, to know it completely, to know I Kahlil Gibran

    #20187

    Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. Kahlil Gibran

    #20188

    If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck b Kahlil Gibran

    #20189

    We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. Kahlil Gibran

    #20190

    They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. Kahlil Gibran

    #20191

    Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with Kahlil Gibran

    #20192

    I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am un grate Kahlil Gibran

    #20193

    Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work Kahlil Gibran

    #20194

    What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt Kahlil Gibran

    #20195

    The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is. Kahlil Gibran

    #20196

    I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. Kahlil Gibran

    #20197

    Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. Kahlil Gibran

    #20198

    What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you Kahlil Gibran

    #20199

    A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cher Kahlil Gibran

    #20200

    Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. Kahlil Gibran

    #20201

    The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers. Kahlil Gibran

    #20202

    Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. Kahlil Gibran

    #20203

    The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge Kahlil Gibran

    #20204

    The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still Kahlil Gibran

    #20205

    Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before Kahlil Gibran

    #20206

    If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. Kahlil Gibran

    #20207

    Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes. Kahlil Gibran

    #20208

    The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. Kahlil Gibran

    #20209

    Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Kahlil Gibran

    #20210

    Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. Kahlil Gibran

    #20211

    The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream Kahlil Gibran

    #20212

    The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Kahlil Gibran

    #20213

    When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your de Kahlil Gibran

    #20214

    When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies. Kahlil Gibran

    #20215

    Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its head Kahlil Gibran

    #20216

    A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and Kahlil Gibran

    #20217

    The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. Kahlil Gibran

    #20218

    It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affin Kahlil Gibran

    #20219

    You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun. Kahlil Gibran

    #20220

    Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. Kahlil Gibran

    #20221

    I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes. Kahlil Gibran

    #20222

    You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Kahlil Gibran

    #20223

    When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with Kahlil Gibran

    #20224

    In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song. Kahlil Gibran

    #20225

    Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake Kahlil Gibran

    #20226

    If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. Kahlil Gibran

    #20227

    Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. Kahlil Gibran

    #20228

    Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. Kahlil Gibran

    #20229

    Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. Kahlil Gibran

    #20230

    To be able to look back upon one’s life in satisfaction, is to live twice. Kahlil Gibran

    #20231

    My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a clot Kahlil Gibran

    #20232

    Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. Kahlil Gibran

    #20233

    Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. Kahlil Gibran

    #20234

    He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. Kahlil Gibran

    #20235

    In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans. Kahlil Gibran

    #20236

    Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies Kahlil Gibran

    #20237

    Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity. Kahlil Gibran

    #20238

    Half of what I say is meaningless but I say it so that the other half may reach you. Kahlil Gibran

    #20239

    Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. Kahlil Gibran

    #20240

    Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation. Kahlil Gibran

    #20241

    Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow. Kahlil Gibran

    #20242

    Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. Kahlil Gibran

    #20243

    You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done. Kahlil Gibran

    #20244

    God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them. Kahlil Gibran

    #20245

    Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain Kahlil Gibran

    #20246

    Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God. Kahlil Gibran

    #20247

    No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver. Kahlil Gibran

    #20248

    Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran

    #20249

    I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. Kahlil Gibran

    #20250

    If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches. Kahlil Gibran

    #20251

    As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease. Kahlil Gibran

    #20252

    Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges Kahlil Gibran

    #20253

    Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Kahlil Gibran

    #20254

    Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards. Kahlil Gibran

    #20255

    When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life. Kahlil Gibran

    #20256

    To be closer to God, be closer to people. Kahlil Gibran

    #20257

    God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is with Kahlil Gibran

    #20258

    During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, t Kahlil Gibran

    #20259

    The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would Kahlil Gibran

    #20260

    Let there be spaces in your togetherness. Kahlil Gibran

    #20261

    To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life. Kahlil Gibran

    #20262

    Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sw Kahlil Gibran

    #20263

    The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion. Kahlil Gibran

    #20264

    The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation. Kahlil Gibran

    #20265

    Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others. Kahlil Gibran

    #20266

    History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history. Kahlil Gibran

    #20267

    The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live acc Kahlil Gibran

    #20268

    Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. Kahlil Gibran

    #20269

    Man merely discovers' he never can and never will invent. Kahlil Gibran

    #20270

    To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do. Kahlil Gibran

    #20271

    The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him. Kahlil Gibran

    #20272

    He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it. Kahlil Gibran

    #20273

    We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams. Kahlil Gibran

    #20274

    Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt. Kahlil Gibran

    #20275

    In battling evil, excess is good for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other Kahlil Gibran

    #20276

    Say no, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Kahlil Gibran

    #20277

    It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. Kahlil Gibran

    #20278

    It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. Kahlil Gibran

    #20279

    If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully. Kahlil Gibran

    #20280

    Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. G. W. F. Hegel

    #20281

    If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. Sir Arthur Eddington

    #20282

    It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from Sir Arthur Eddington

    #20283

    I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom and important knowledge of the atom Sir Arthur Eddington

    #20284

    Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. Sir Arthur Eddington

    #20285

    Something unknown is doing we don't know what. Sir Arthur Eddington

    #20286

    We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account Sir Arthur Eddington

    #20287

    We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong. Sir Arthur Eddington

    #20288

    We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal m Sir Arthur Eddington

    #20289

    Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. Sir Arthur Eddington

    #20290

    For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the Supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every Sir Arthur Eddington

    #20291

    Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington

    #20292

    The mathematics is not there till we put it there. Sir Arthur Eddington

    #20293

    Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And T Keven Kwaku

    #20294

    Everything that can be invented, has been invented. Charles H. Duell

    #20295

    Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. George Orwell

    #20296

    He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past. George Orwell

    #20297

    For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels him George Orwell

    #20298

    Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are George Orwell

    #20299

    The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by George Orwell

    #20300

    The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded. George Orwell

    #20301

    Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable o George Orwell

    #20302

    ...Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them a George Orwell

    #20303

    Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell

    #20304

    It is a commonplace that the history of civilization is largely the history of weapons. In particular, the connection between the George Orwell

    #20305

    Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. George Orwell

    #20306

    On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. George Orwell

    #20307

    Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. George Orwell

    #20308

    Orthodoxy is Unconsciousness. George Orwell

    #20309

    People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. George Orwell

    #20310

    To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. George Orwell

    #20311

    All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell

    #20312

    The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. George Orwell

    #20313

    Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after George Orwell

    #20314

    The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization. Jacob Getlar Smith

    #20315

    Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, bap Finley Peter Dunne

    #20316

    The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here. Finley Peter Dunne

    #20317

    Many a man that couldn't direct you to the drug store on the corner when he was 3 will get a respectful hearing when age has fur Finley Peter Dunne

    #20318

    We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. Herman Melville

    #20319

    There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a Herman Melville

    #20320

    We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and among those fibers, as sympathetic threat Herman Melville

    #20321

    It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville

    #20322

    Life's a voyage that's homeward bound. Herman Melville

    #20323

    A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. Herman Melville

    #20324

    Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the Herman Melville

    #20325

    The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. Norman Mailer

    #20326

    There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. Norman Mailer

    #20327

    Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a Norman Mailer

    #20328

    People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we Norman Mailer

    #20329

    Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. Norman Mailer

    #20330

    Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. Norman Mailer

    #20331

    One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it there's probably nothing worse you c Norman Mailer

    #20332

    For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory Ethel Barrymore

    #20333

    You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the m Ethel Barrymore

    #20334

    You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. Ethel Barrymore

    #20335

    The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings. Dan Cook

    #20336

    We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20337

    Nurture your mind with great thoughts. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20338

    Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20339

    A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20340

    Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20341

    Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous on Benjamin Disraeli

    #20342

    Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20343

    Never complain and never explain. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20344

    Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20345

    Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20346

    We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims Benjamin Disraeli

    #20347

    Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offer Benjamin Disraeli

    #20348

    Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20349

    Said Waldershare, 'Sensible men are all of the same religion.' 'And pray what is that' ... 'Sensible men never tell.' Benjamin Disraeli

    #20350

    The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20351

    The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20352

    He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20353

    Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20354

    Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way Benjamin Disraeli

    #20355

    Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20356

    I must follow the people. Am I not their leader Benjamin Disraeli

    #20357

    Assassination has never changed the history of the world. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20358

    Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforeseen Benjamin Disraeli

    #20359

    The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20360

    Nurture your mind with great thoughts, For you will never go any higher that you think... Benjamin Disraeli

    #20361

    Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20362

    There are three kinds of lies, damned lies, and statistics. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20363

    Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20364

    There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20365

    Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20366

    Little things affect little minds. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20367

    To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20368

    Fear makes us feel our humanity. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20369

    Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars a Benjamin Disraeli

    #20370

    Success is the child of audacity. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20371

    The secret of success is constancy of purpose. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20372

    Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20373

    I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20374

    As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20375

    Sir, I say that justice is truth in action. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20376

    Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20377

    It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being Benjamin Disraeli

    #20378

    What we anticipate seldom occurs what we least expected generally happens. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20379

    It is well-known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20380

    Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20381

    As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20382

    Ignorance never settles a question. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20383

    Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20384

    Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20385

    I repeat...that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all spring Benjamin Disraeli

    #20386

    My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20387

    It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political p Benjamin Disraeli

    #20388

    A precedent embalms a principle. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20389

    Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20390

    Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate Benjamin Disraeli

    #20391

    Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20392

    The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20393

    The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20394

    The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20395

    No government can be long secure without formidable opposition. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20396

    The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies Benjamin Disraeli

    #20397

    The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20398

    It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20399

    When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20400

    The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20401

    When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we a Benjamin Disraeli

    #20402

    A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. Benjamin Disraeli

    #20403

    I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve pr Benjamin Disraeli

    #20404

    Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, John Donne

    #20405

    No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent. John Donne

    #20406

    Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name. John Donne

    #20407

    Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. John Donne

    #20408

    Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. John Donne

    #20409

    More than kisses, letters mingle souls. John Donne

    #20410

    No man is an Island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the John Donne

    #20411

    Love all love of other sights controls, and makes one little room an everywhere. John Donne

    #20412

    Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and John Donne

    #20413

    Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dread full, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinks, thou John Donne

    #20414

    Pink All I'm saying is that if I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life - remind me to kill myself. Dazed and Confused

    #20415

    Wooderson The older you get the more rules they are going to try and get you to follow. You just gotta keep on livin man. L-I-V- Dazed and Confused

    #20416

    Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, sh Dazed and Confused

    #20417

    Slater Didja ever look at a dollar bill man there’s some spooky shit going' on there. And it's green too. Dazed and Confused

    #20418

    Dawson Well, all I'm saying is that I want to look back and say that I did it the best I could while I was stuck in this place. Dazed and Confused

    #20419

    Wooderson that’s what I like about these high school girls, I keep getting older, they stay the same age. Dazed and Confused

    #20420

    You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements ab Harry S Truman

    #20421

    All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get the Harry S Truman

    #20422

    It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job it's a depression when you lose yours. Harry S Truman

    #20423

    If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing. Harry S Truman

    #20424

    Study men, not historians. Harry S Truman

    #20425

    Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past. Harry S Truman

    #20426

    It was the same with those old birds in Greece and Rome as it is now. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't k Harry S Truman

    #20427

    Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. Harry S Truman

    #20428

    How far would have Moses gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt Harry S Truman

    #20429

    Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar. . . . . He’s one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking ou Harry S Truman

    #20430

    I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That Harry S Truman

    #20431

    If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Harry S Truman

    #20432

    Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. Harry S Truman

    #20433

    The White House is the finest prison in the world. Harry S Truman

    #20434

    Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything. Harry S Truman

    #20435

    In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of the Harry S Truman

    #20436

    It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. Harry S Truman

    #20437

    A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S Truman

    #20438

    I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his dammed Harry S Truman

    #20439

    I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. Harry S Truman

    #20440

    I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. Harry S Truman

    #20441

    The only new thing is history we don't know. Harry S Truman

    #20442

    The absence of war is not peace. Harry S Truman

    #20443

    It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot. Harry S Truman

    #20444

    Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great. Harry S Truman

    #20445

    When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth -- then all American Harry S Truman

    #20446

    Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that t Harry S Truman

    #20447

    You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created f Harry S Truman

    #20448

    Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is u Harry S Truman

    #20449

    America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. Harry S Truman

    #20450

    I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually Harry S Truman

    #20451

    I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've d Harry S Truman

    #20452

    Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here. Harry S Truman

    #20453

    Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down Harry S Truman

    #20454

    Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast. Harry S Truman

    #20455

    I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his dammed Harry S Truman

    #20456

    If you cannot convince them, confuse them. Harry S Truman

    #20457

    And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survive Andrew Carnegie

    #20458

    The man who dies rich dies disgraced. Andrew Carnegie

    #20459

    Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. Andrew Carnegie

    #20460

    All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. Andrew Carnegie

    #20461

    He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. Andrew Carnegie

    #20462

    No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. Andrew Carnegie

    #20463

    Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indi Andrew Carnegie

    #20464

    One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. Andrew Carnegie

    #20465

    Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow--You are not wrong who deem That my days have been Edgar Allan Poe

    #20466

    I have great faith in fools -- self-confidence my friends call it. Edgar Allan Poe

    #20467

    Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Edgar Allan Poe

    #20468

    It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, Edgar Allan Poe

    #20469

    Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. Edgar Allan Poe

    #20470

    All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe

    #20471

    It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a Edgar Allan Poe

    #20472

    I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity Edgar Allan Poe

    #20473

    Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. Edgar Allan Poe

    #20474

    Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. Edgar Allan Poe

    #20475

    The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works. William Strong

    #20476

    Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished. Og Mandino

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