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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
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A college education shows a man how little other people know.
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In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
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Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
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There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
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Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.
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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
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Tony Hancock (2)
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
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Lorraine Hansberry (3)
Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
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I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'
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A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
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Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
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Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.
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William Hazlitt (38)
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (9)
Education is the art of making man ethical.
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Martin Heidegger (6)
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.
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Robert A. Heinlein (14)
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
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Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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Ernest Hemingway (35)
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
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Arthur Henderson (4)
Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
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Jimi Hendrix (22)
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
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Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
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I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
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How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
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The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
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For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.
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Abraham Joshua Heschel (4)
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
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I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
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Napoleon Hill (28)
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
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Paul Hindemith (2)
People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
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Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Thomas Hobbes (8)
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
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Eric Hoffer (31)
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
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As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
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I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
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I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
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We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
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There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.
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Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
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About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
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No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
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Anthony Hope (2)
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
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Edward Hopper (8)
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
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Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
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I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
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Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
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I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
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Julia Ward Howe (3)
While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.
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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
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No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
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Elbert Hubbard (59)
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
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Langston Hughes (7)
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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Charles Evans Hughes (4)
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
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An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
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David Hume (16)
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
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Hubert H. Humphrey (16)
This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
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You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
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Ellsworth Huntington (2)
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
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That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
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