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- What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
- Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599), 'The Fate of the Butterfly,' 1591
- Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
- The best mirror is an old friend.
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633), 1651
- Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.
- John Fletcher (1579 - 1625), 1647
- The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
- John Barth (1930 - )
- It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
- Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12
- There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
- Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 1642
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