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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

-Frank Tebbets

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

-Shira Tehrani

"He who mistrusts most, should be trusted least."

-Theognis

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

-Henry David Thoreau, Walden(1854),I,Economy

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

-Henry David Thoreau, Walden(1854), II, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

-Henry David Thoreau, Walden(1854), III, Reading

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

-Henry David Thoreau, Walden(1854),V, Solitude

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

-Henry David Thoreau, Walking(1862)

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

-Henry David Thoreau

All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.

-Leo Tolstoy, opening line of "Anna Karenina"

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

-Mark Twain

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

-Mark Twain

Good judgement comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgement.

-Mark Twain

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

-Mark Twain, spoken by Huck Finn, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

-Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame.

The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.

Mark Twain

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

-Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), What Is Man?(1906)

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

-Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Notebooks(1935)

Let us endeavour to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

-Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), from Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar(1894)

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.)

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

-Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.

-Chuang Tzu

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Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

"Love conquers all."

-Virgil

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

-Voltaire

Le sens commun n'est pas si commun.

Voltaire

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All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

-Jane Wagner

Do all the good you can
By all the means you can
In all the ways you can
In all the places you can
To all the people you can
As long as ever you can.

-John Wesley

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Walt Whitman

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about"

-Oscar Wilde

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde

Few of our ancestors were perfect ladies and gentlemen; the majority, in fact, weren't even mammals.

-Robert Anton Wilson

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has been said often by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And, I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. If we wish to know the truth concerning anything, we'll find it in the nature of that thing.

-Frank Lloyd Wright

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first. When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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