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Paul Valery
...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.
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Tennessee Williams
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
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William Shakespeare
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
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Jane Austen
What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
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Cullen Hightower
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
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Ann Landers
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I do not know everything; still many things I understand.
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Jonathan Swift
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.
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Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
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John Locke
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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Unknown
A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head.
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