Phillip Lopate

The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.

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Donald Creighton

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.

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James Thurber

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

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Eric Hoffer

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

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Benjamin Franklin

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.

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Hugh Prather

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does.

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Hippocrates, Regimen

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

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Emmet Fox

Life is consciousness.

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Thomas Fuller

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

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Herbert Spencer

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

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