Juliana of Norwich

He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased' but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.'

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Isocrates

Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.

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Abraham J. Heschel

The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.

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Henry Adams

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

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M. F. K. Fisher

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

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Edward R. Murrow

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

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Herman Melville

He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be great.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

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Gerald R. Ford

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

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Eric Hoffer

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

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Anon.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.

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Arnold J. Toynbee

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

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