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- Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), The Prince
- The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
- Herb Caen
- Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. - William Congreve (1670 - 1729), The Mourning Bride, 1697, act III scene 8
- I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, 1854
- How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet LIV
- But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act I, sc. 7
- How far your eyes may pierce, i cannot tell; striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), King Lear, Act I, sc. 4
- Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
- Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Twilight of the Idols (1899)
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