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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it. — Elbert Hubbard
The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense. — Winston Churchill
Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed. — Albert Einstein
The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within, the greater, the farther, the… — Edgar Cayce
Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a… — Washington Irving
We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and… — Bertrand Russell
When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to… — Charles Caleb Colton
The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and… — Samuel Johnson
Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse. — Aeschylus
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often… — Robert Louis Stevenson
In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves… — Cesar Chavez
The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott… — Cesar Chavez
"The life of the union depends upon more people getting to share the limelight, because with the limelight also comes responsibility and with the responsibility… — Cesar Chavez
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and… — Abraham Lincoln
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you… — Robert Louis Stevenson
It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings. — John Donne
You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men… — Khalil Gibran
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes upon itself the… — Joseph Conrad
The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which,… — George Gissing
Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you… — Elbert Hubbard
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer… — Joseph Conrad
It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth… — Samuel Johnson
In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings. — Robert Green Ingersoll

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