"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Courage
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"To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Secrets
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"Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

Jung, Carl on Sadness
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"Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not."

Crowley, Aleister on Romance and Romanticism
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"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"

Thoreau, Henry David on Busyness
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"The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further."

Ogilvie, Sir Heneage on Busyness
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"If you are pre-occupied with life and death then you aren't ready for heaven."

Unknown, Source on Busyness
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"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody on Love
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"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."

Ackerman, Diane on Love
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"When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me."

Bridges, Robert on Lovers
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"The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness."

Cousins, Norman on Loneliness
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"Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey."

Chazal, Malcolm De on Self-love
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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on Self-love
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"I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing."

Fadiman, Clifton on Quotations
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"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on Hope
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