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- When we are unable to find tranquillity within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
- Robert Collier
- Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
- John Viscount Morley
- Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
- Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
- To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
- Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)
- Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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