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- Don't let yourself forget what it's like to be sixteen.
- Anonymous
- Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
- Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
- Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,' Act III, scene ii
- If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Malheureux'
- Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), 'Poor Richard's Almanack,' June 1746
- Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661), 'The Holy State and the Profane State,' 1642
- Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), 'Cato'
- 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
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