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Post by Gator on Oct 10, 2021 22:01:11 GMT -5
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)
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Post by Gator on Oct 11, 2021 4:02:03 GMT -5
Thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900)
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Post by Gator on Oct 11, 2021 23:40:42 GMT -5
Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the two others are but journeymen, set it to work.
Henry Fielding
(1707-1754)
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Post by Gator on Oct 12, 2021 23:06:01 GMT -5
History is made by men, but they do not make it in their heads. The ideas that are born in their consciousness play an insignificant part in the march of events. History is dominated and determined by the tool and the production—by the force of economic conditions.
Joseph Conrad
(1857-1924)
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Post by Gator on Oct 14, 2021 20:17:00 GMT -5
You and I, dear reader, are each the center of the universe in our respective opinions. You, as I understand it, were brought into being by a considerate Providence in order that you might read and pay me for what I write; while I, in your opinion, am an article sent into the world to write something for you to read.
Jerome K. Jerome
(1859-1927)
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Post by Gator on Oct 14, 2021 23:03:11 GMT -5
The greatest trust, between man and man, is the trust of giving counsel. For in other confidences, men commit the parts of life; their lands, their goods ... some particular affair; but to such as they make their counselors, they commit the whole.
Francis Bacon
(1561-1626)
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Post by Gator on Oct 16, 2021 17:51:54 GMT -5
We love flattery even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
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Post by Gator on Oct 16, 2021 23:47:19 GMT -5
One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
(1849-1924)
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Post by Gator on Oct 18, 2021 0:00:43 GMT -5
It is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by a happiness that is not your own.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
(1874-1942)
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Post by Gator on Oct 19, 2021 0:19:35 GMT -5
I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)
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Post by Gator on Oct 19, 2021 23:02:03 GMT -5
It's worth a fellow's while to be born into the world, if only to fall right asleep.
Herman Melville
(1819-1891)
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Post by Gator on Oct 20, 2021 23:39:02 GMT -5
We must have felt what it is to die ... that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living.
Alexandre Dumas
(1802-1870)
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Post by Gator on Oct 22, 2021 0:06:37 GMT -5
When I talk of eyes, the stars come out! Whose eyes are they? If they are angels' eyes, why do they look down here and see good men hurt, and only wink and sparkle all the night?
Charles Dickens
(1812-1870)
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Post by Gator on Oct 23, 2021 1:54:14 GMT -5
Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe: evil spreads as necessarily as disease.
George Eliot
(1819-1880)
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Post by Gator on Oct 23, 2021 23:34:16 GMT -5
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.
William Makepeace Thackeray
(1811-1863)
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