"Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. "

Kennedy, John F. on Uncategorised
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"Mr. Emerson visited Thoreau at the jail, and the meeting between the two philosophers must have been interesting and somewhat dramatic. The account of the meeting was told me by Miss Maria Thoreau [Henry Thoreaus aunt]Henry, why are you here? Waldo, why are you not here?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Uncategorised
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"More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past. "

Warren, Robert Penn on Uncategorised
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"We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Books - Reading
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"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Dreams
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"What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are."

Mckay, David O. on Learning
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"For it is in giving that we receive."

Francis of Assisi, St. on Giving
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"Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me."

Unknown, Source on Giving
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"The only thing bigger than God`s great universe is man`s ego."

Sevakis, Gary on Love
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"Durability is part of what makes a great athlete."

Russell, Bill on Athlete
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"Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

Bacon, Francis on Humor
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"Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better."

Bible on Sorrow
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"We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again."

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"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."

Rohn, Jim on Joy
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"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious."

Horace on People
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"Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true."

Picasso, Pablo on Fame
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Picasso, Pablo on Arts and Artists
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"We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death."

Proverb on Death and Dying
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"If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Writers and Writing
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"The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Music
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"Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Fame
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"What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Happiness
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"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it."

Proust, Marcel on Ideas
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"The coward threatens when he is safe."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Coward and Cowardice
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"Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient?"

Proust, Marcel on Neurosis
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"Well-ordered self-love is right and natural."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on Love
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"I love my fellow creatures -- I do all the good I can -- yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!"

Gilbert, W. S. on Philanthropists
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"The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own."

Gilbert, W. S. on Dissatisfaction
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"Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying."

Unknown, Source on Self-knowledge
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"Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough."

Unknown, Source on Thoughts and Thinking
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"If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance."

Unknown, Source on Adversity
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"The reward of suffering is experience."

Aeschylus on Adversity
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"What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise."

Collins, Kitty O'neill on Adversity
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"Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then."

Johnson, Samuel on Adversity
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"The 8 Equities: Physical, Spiritual, Psychological, Intellectual, Emotional, Financial, Social and Family"

Vance, Michael on Injustice
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"Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!"

Swahili Warrior Song on Adversity
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"The Extra Mile will have no traffic jams."

Unknown, Source on Extra Mile
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"Don't be one to remember everything lent, but forget everything borrowed."

Unknown, Source on Borrowing
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"The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands."

Unknown, Source on Friends and Friendship
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"The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty."

Unknown, Source on Joy
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