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Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare. — Leo Tolstoy
Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true. — Horace
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit,… — Rabindranath Tagore
A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views. — Luc de Clapiers
Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew… — Bernard of Clairvaux
Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . .… — Francois Fenelon
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried… — William Shakespeare
The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness. — Eric Hoffer
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an… — Ambrose Bierce
A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men… — Charles Dickens
How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream. — Dalai Lama
I have always been very interested in landscape... I find that all natural forms are a source of unending interest - tree trunks, the growth… — Henry Moore
The stream is always purer at its source. — Blaise Pascal
In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are… — Bernard Berenson
The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all,… — Philip James Bailey
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame. — Hesiod
Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values.… — Ayn Rand
The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall. — Clarence Day
I guess the main source of stress for me is the stress I put on myself. — Thomas Keller

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