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"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"He that speaks much, is much mistaken"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"Beauty and folly are old companions"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"I love those who yearn for the impossible"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"A Constitution should be short and obscure"
Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader
"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh"
Samuel Beckett, Playwright
"Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom"
Cicero, Philosopher
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil"
Cicero, Philosopher
"No one can give you better advice than yourself"
Cicero, Philosopher
"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault"
Cicero, Philosopher
"The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind"
Theodore Roosevelt, President
"Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails"
Plato, Philosopher
"Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom"
Plato, Philosopher
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another"
Plato, Philosopher
"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men"
Plato, Philosopher
"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"A wise man turns chance into good fortune"
Thomas Fuller, Clergyman
"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings"
Thomas Fuller, Clergyman
"A good horse should be seldom spurred"
Thomas Fuller, Clergyman
"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees"
William Blake, Poet
"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, Clergyman
"I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"What is once well done is done forever"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
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