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| There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. -- Mark Twain |
| Author: Twain, MarkEra: 1835 |
| To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. -- Mark Twain |
| Author: Twain, MarkEra: 1835 |
| We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Author: Roosevelt, Franklin D.Era: 1882 |
| The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author: NagarjunaEra: 100 |
| Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author: NagarjunaEra: 100 |
| Let the wind of the spirit blow between your shores. The great oaks in the forest do not grow in each other's shade. -- Kahlil Gibran |
| Author: Gibran, KahlilEra: 1883 |
| Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. -- Arthur Schopenhauer |
| Author: Schopenhauer, ArthurEra: 1788 |
| Strive with thy thoughts unclean before they overpower thee. Use them as they will thee, for if thou sparest them and they take root and grow, know well, these thoughts will overpower and kill thee. Beware! Suffer not their shadow to approach. For it will grow, increase in size and power, and then this thing of darkness will absorb thy being before thou hast well realized the black foul monster's presence. -- H. P. Blavatsky |
| Author: Blavatsky, H. P.Era: 1831 |
| On every mountain height is rest. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author: Goethe, Johann VonEra: 1749 |
| The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. -- Terence |
| Author: TerenceEra: -195 |
| Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination. -- Sivananda |
| Author: SivanandaEra: 1887 |
| Weariness can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth finds the down pillow hard. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| Unknown to her the rigid rule, The dull restraint, the chiding frown The weary torture of the school, The taming of wild nature down. -- John Greenleaf Whittier |
| Author: Whittier, John GreenleafEra: 1807 |
| Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection. -- Publius Cornelius Tacitus |
| Author: TacitusEra: 55 |
| The path of immortality is hard, and only a few find it. The rest await the Great Day when the wheels of the universe shall be stopped and the immortal sparks shall escape from the sheaths of substance. Woe unto those who wait, for they must return again, unconscious and unknowing, to the seed-ground of stars, and await a new beginning. -- The Divine Pymander |
| Author: Divine Pymander, TheEra: -2500 |
| Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. -- Daniel Webster |
| Author: Webster, DanielEra: 1782 |
| Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. -- George Santayana |
| Author: Santayana, GeorgeEra: 1863 |
| Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! -- William Winter |
| Author: Winter, WilliamEra: 1836 |
| Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know. -- Mark Twain |
| Author: Twain, MarkEra: 1835 |
| Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Author: Shaw, George BernardEra: 1856 |
| If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest the heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing. -- Herodotus |
| Author: HerodotusEra: -484 |
| restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure. -- Thomas Alva Edison |
| Author: Edison, Thomas A.Era: 1847 |
| Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock |
| Author: Leacock, Stephen B.Era: 1869 |
| At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned. -- Georges Jacques Danton |
| Author: Danton, Georges J.Era: 1759 |
| If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us. -- Kin Hubbard |
| Author: Hubbard, KinEra: 1868 |
| One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good. -- Gurdjieff |
| Author: GurdjieffEra: 1873 |
| It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. -- Seneca |
| Author: SenecaEra: -4 |
| The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. -- William Faulkner |
| Author: Faulkner, WilliamEra: 1897 |
| He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. -- Edmund Burke |
| Author: Burke, EdmundEra: 1729 |
| Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| Author: Bulwer-Lytton, Edward RobertEra: 1803 |
| The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. -- François La Rochefoucauld |
| Author: La Rochefoucauld, FrançoisEra: 1613 |
| It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside. -- I Ching |
| Author: Ching, IEra: -1150 |
| Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Author: Longfellow, Henry WadsworthEra: 1807 |
| Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. -- Samuel Daniel |
| Author: Daniel, SamuelEra: 1562 |
| Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. -- Daniel Webster |
| Author: Webster, DanielEra: 1782 |
| The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator. -- Aldous Huxley |
| Author: Huxley, AldousEra: 1894 |
| Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart and not the brain That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Author: Longfellow, Henry WadsworthEra: 1807 |
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