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William Ellery Channing
To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.
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Author Unknown
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, And whom did you consult before coming to me?Only the village druggist, was the answer.And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you? asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman.Oh, replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, he told me to come and see you.
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Emily Saliers
You have to laugh at yourself because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.
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Flannery O\'Connor
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
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Henry Kissinger
The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.
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John Dewey
There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.
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James Russell Lowell
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Susan Partnow
It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.
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Mark Twain
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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Seneca
Delay not swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
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