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If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass through our doors, we, at least, are responsible for those which we admit and entertain.
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
"I've got what you call bobsled looks; going downhill fast."
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.
The heart has its reasons that reason does not know.
You cannot have freedom unless you have responsibility also.
"Things are not always what they seem."
With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.
Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
"I have hardly ever known a mathematician that was capable of reasoning."
Not by years but by disposition is wisdom acquired.
"Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth,
does he abandon to cries and lamentations."
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Nigel gave the lamp a cautious buff and small smoking red letters appeared in the air.
"Hi," Nigel read aloud, "Do not put down the lamp because your custom is important to us. Please leave a wish after the tone and, very shortly, it will be our command. In the meantime, have a nice eternity."
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.
"There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance."
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Dear Lady be cautious of Cupid
List well to the lines of this verse
To be kissed by a fool is stupid
To be fooled by a kiss is worse.
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while DARING GREATLY so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
"The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry."
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have I said?" and then I knew it was true.
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.
The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable. A view of this sort, which goes against biological facts, can only be regarded by sane people as a morbid aberration. The fact that it is embedded in Christian ethics has made Christianity throughout its whole history a force tending towards mental disorders and unwholesome views of life.
"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical no one will believe it."
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death....Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
"What fools these mortals be."
"It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more who is poor."
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world.
"Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
This above all: to thine own self be true
What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
-William Shakespeare
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, they make them.
"Come of what may."
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
I have never smuggles anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
"There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature."
May you live all the days of your life.
"It is better to learn late than never."
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