Quotes on life

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The years teach much which the days never knew.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

~ Harry Firestone

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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his lttle finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

~ William James

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Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

~ Romain Cary

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It was the same with those old birds in Greece and Rome as it is now. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

~ Harry S Truman

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There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

~ Salvador Dali

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It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

~ Franklin P. Jones

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For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard...

~ William Shakespeare

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Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

~ Samuel Johnson

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