Excerpts of Citations
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
~Orson Welles
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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
from Journals, 1839 -
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, e...
~Katharine Butler Hathaway
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
~Mark Twain
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
~John Ruskin
from Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850 -
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
~Demosthenes
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
~Thomas Edison
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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
~Virginia Woolfe
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The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
~Michel de Montaigne
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To live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
~Henry Miller
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Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it lon...
~Brian Tracy
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You always pass failure on the way to success.
~Mickey Rooney
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
~Bertrand Russell
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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming...
~Cicero
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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive...
~Ann Landers