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- I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), 'The Spectator'
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
- Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Sohrab and Rustum,' 1853
- The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
- Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Literature and Dogma,' preface to 1883 edition, last words
- Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
- Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 'Christian Morals,' 1716
- The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
- It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
- The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
- One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
- Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 2
- Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
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