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- All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- To regret deeply is to live afresh.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
- Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
- If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
- Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
- Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
- Miguel De Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
- The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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