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1.
We (sea folk) can
live to be three hundred years old, but when we
perish we turn
into mere foam on the
sea.
Andersen,
The Little Mermaid
2.
Man is not
made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not
defeated.
Hemingway,
The
Old Man and the Sea
3.
There are more
things to admire in men than to despise.
4.
What interests
me is living and dying for what one loves.
5.
If there is
one thing one can always yearn for and sometimes
attain, it is human
love.
Camus,
The Plague
6.
I disapprove of what you say, but I
will defend to the death your right to say it.
V
oltaire
7.
Laugh, and the
world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.
Stevenson,
Solitude
8.
People ask you
for criticism, but they only want praise.
Maugham,
Of Human
Bondage
9.
Life teaches us to be less harsh with
ourselves and with others.
Goethe
10.
Everyone is
moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to
anybody.
11.
“
C
lassic.
”
A book which people
praise and don
’
t read.
Mark Twain
12.
We want to live by each
other
’
s happiness
–
not by each
other
’
s misery.
Chaplin,
The Great Dictator
13.
Ignorance is
not innocence but sin.
Browning
14.
You shall
have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you
shall not have both.
Emerson
15.
If we had no
winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we
did not sometimes
taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
Bradstreet,
Meditations Divine& Moral
16.
History
is
the
mighty
Tower
of
Experience,
which
Time
has
built
amidst
the
endless fields of bygone ages.
Van
Loon,
The Story of Mankind
17.
A wise man
gets more use from his enemies than a fool from
his friends.
Balthasar Gracian,
The
Golden Mean
18.
People are never ridiculous for being
what they really are, but for affecting what
they really are not.
Lord
Chesterfield,
Affectation
19.
He
who
hunts
for
flowers
will
find
flowers;
and
he
who
loves
weeds
will
find
weeds.
Beecher,
The
Cynic
20.
Don
’
t
believe what
your eyes
are telling
you. All
they show is
limitation.
Look
with your
understanding.
Richard Bach,
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
21.
It is much
more difficult to judge oneself than to judge
others. If you succeed in
judging
yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of
true wisdom.
Saint-Exupery,
The Little Prince
22.
The most
beautiful thing we can experience is the
mysterious. It is the source of
all
true art and science.
Einstein,
What I
Believe
23.
Those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it.
Santayana,
The Life of
Reason
24.
Take time before time takes you.
Richmond,
A New Look from
Borrowed Time
25.
Don
’
t throw
stones at your neighbors
’
,
if your own windows are glass.
Franklin
26.
There is only
one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
27.
Art for art
’
s
sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of the
true, art for the sake of
the good and
the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching
for.
George Sand
28.
People should be beautiful every way
–
in their faces, in the way
they dress, in
their thoughts and in
their innermost selves.
Chekhov
29.
You can tell
the character of every man when you see how he
receives praise.
Seneca
30.
No one can
make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt,
This Is My Story
31.
Human
suffering is mostly made by man himself.
Leon J, Saul,
Suffering is Self-
Manufactured
32.
The way to find joy in life is to
understand that you are given life to enjoy it.
Alexandra Tolstoy,
Leo Tolstoy
33.
Mankind must
put an end to war or war will put an end to
mankind.
Kennedy
34.
He who loves
another tries truly to understand the other.
Overstreet,
The
Hidden World Around Us
35.
Man cannot
have dignity without loving the dignity of his
fellow.
Bernstein,
The Mountain Disappears
36.
Books are the
legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind,
which are delivered
down from
generation to generation, as presents to the
posterity of those who are
yet unborn.
Addison,
The
Spectator
37.
The direction in which education starts
a man will determine his future life.
Plato,
The
Republic
38.
Without the memories,
it
’
s all meaningless.
Lois Lowry,
The
Giver
39.
Books cannot be killed by fire. People
die, but books never die. No man and no
force can abolish memory.
Roosevelt
40.
I believe
that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
Faulkner
41.
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
Disraeli, Sybil
42.
Language is
the road map of a culture.
Brown,
To the Victor Belongs
the Language
43.
The good life is one inspired by love
and guided by knowledge.
44.
Love is a
word which covers a variety of feelings.
Russell,
The
Good Life
45.
Books are to mankind what memory is to
the individual.
Lubbock,
the Delights of
Books
46.
No man is an island, entire of itself.
Donne,
Devotions
upon Emergent Occasions
47.
Reading is
not merely sympathizing and understanding; it is
also criticizing and
judging.
Woolf,
How
Should One Read a Book?
48.
Reading is an
opportunity, a privilege to meet people
you
’
ve never seen in places
you
’
ve never been
before.
Emma Bombeck
49.
A Room without books is a body without
a soul.
Mark Twain
50.
As I would not be a slave, so I would
not be a master.
Basler,
The Collected Works
of Abraham Lincoln
51.
Selfishness
is the greatest curse of the human race.
Gladstone,
Speech at Hawarden
52.
It is no use
to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
Gogol,
The Inspector-General
53.
As a rule,
men habitually use only a small part of the powers
which they actually
possess.
William James
54.
Knowledge is
one thing, virtue is another.
Newman,
The Idea
of a university
55.
Youth is like
spring, an overpraised season.
Butler,
The Way
of All Flesh
56.
People who know little are usually
great talker, while men who know much say
little.
Rousseau,
Emile
57.
The thirst
after happiness is never extinguished in the heart
of man.
Rousseau,
Les
Confessions
58.
A compliment is something like a kiss
through a veil.
Hugo,
Saint Denis
59.
A man is not
idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a
visible labor and
there is an invisible
labor.
Hugo, Les Miserables
60.
The greatest
pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth,
and to have it found
out by accident.
Lamb,
Table Talk
61.
Every man
takes the limits of his own field of vision for
the limits of the world.
Schopenhauer,
Studies in pessimism
62.
To marry is
to halve your rights and double your duties.
Schopenhauer,
The World as
Will and Idea
63.
The strongest of all warriors are these
two
–
Time and Patience.
Tolstoi,
War and
Peace
64.
Happy families are all alike; every
unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Tolstoi,
Anna
Karenina
65.
When you betray somebody else, you also
betray yourself.
66.
We
know
what
a
person
thinks
not
when
he
tells
us
what
he
thinks,
but
by
his
actions.
67.
The greatness
of art is not to find what is common but what is
unique.
Singer
68.
The greatest
test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without
losing heart.
Ingersoll
69.
Life shrinks
or expands in proportion to
one
’
s courage.
Nin
70.
To beautify life is to give it an
object.
Jose Marti,
On Oscar
Wilde
71.
Don
’
t hurry,
don
’
t worry.
You
’
re only here for a short
visit. So be sure to stop and
smell the
flowers.
Hagen
72.
Every man desires to live long, but no
man would be old.
Swift,
Thoughts on Various
Subjects
73.
Literature opens for all readers new
realms of discovery and understanding.
Lukens, A Critical Handbook of
Literature for YA
74.
The sole substitute for an experience
which we have not ourselves lived through is
art and literature.
Solzhenisyn
75.
Whatever you
love and trust in this world loves you in return.
Frank Harris,
The Holy Man
76.
The
difficulty in life is the choice.
Moore,
The
Bending of the Bough
77.
When you have
to make a choice and don
’
t
make it, that in itself is a choice.
William James
78.
Life has a value only when it has
something valuable as its object.
Hegel,
Philosophy of History
79.
No human
being can really understand another, and no one
can arrange another
’
s
happiness.
Greene,
The Heart of the
Matter
80.
Whoever is happy will make others happy
too. He who has courage and faith will
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