Homer

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest.

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Jamiroquai, Virtual Insanity

We can always take but never give.

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Dorothy Parker

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

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Thomas Fuller

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

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Real Live Preacher

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of Gods existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

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Anthony Hopkins

I love life because what more is there.

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Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

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Mahatma Gandhi

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

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William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

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Oscar Wilde

Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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