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The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of… — William Hazlitt
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations. — Andre Gide
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration. — William Hazlitt
People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical. — Thomas Carlyle
Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it. — Robert Penn Warren
I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with… — Kurt Vonnegut
At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water of a river,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought. — Alfred North Whitehead
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. — Jacques Barzun
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so… — Charles Caleb Colton
There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods. — Alexander Pope
And as the divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and… — Emanuel Swedenborg
The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious. — Carl Jung
We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly and with our spirits we… — Marianne Williamson
The angels are thoughts of love sent from God. Since God is continuously expressing loving thoughts, there are an infinite number of angels. They are… — Doreen Virtue
God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese! — William Shakespeare
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows… — Edward Hoagland
All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities. — Konrad Lorenz
The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing. — Bill Vaughan
You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard. — Aisha Tyler
There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when people can just… — Kristen Wiig
From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is intended to convey… — Meredith Willson

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