"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

Thoreau, Henry David on Life and Living
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"The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."

O'Casey, Sean on Practice
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"Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing."

Gladden, W. on Words
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"For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain, ’T is somewhat late to trouble. This I know— I should live the same life over, if I had to live again; And the chances are I go where most men go. "

Gordon, Adam Lindsay on Death
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"Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified."

Peterson, Wilferd A. on Excellence
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"Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world."

Margolius, Hans on Perception
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