25 private quotes tagged author

“That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I cannot make my days longer. So I strive to make them better.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Silence alone is worthy to be heard.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most.” — Mark Twain

Source:Mark Twain's Autobiography, p117

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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” — Ian MacLaren

Source:http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/

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“You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.” — Candace Bushnell

Source:Sex and the City

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“Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.” — Maya Angelou

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“Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I make myself rich by making my wants few.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” — Helen Keller

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“I am a child of God, an inheritor of a fragment of the mind that created all worlds.” — Helen Keller

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“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.” — Thomas Fuller

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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” — Ray Bradbury

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“Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by.” — William Shakespeare

Source:William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73

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“I thank God for my handicaps, for through them I have found myself, my work and my God.” — Helen Keller

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“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.” — Helen Keller

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“It will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.” — Samuel Beckett

Source:The Unnamable, 1954. Book.

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“I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.” — Mark Twain

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“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” — Douglas Adams

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“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.” — Sir Walter Besant

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“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.” — David Russell

Source:Last Dance. Book.

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“There are three kinds of lies: lies, d--n lies, and statistics.” — Mark Twain

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“Simplify, simplify.” — Henry David Thoreau

Source:Walden; or, Life in the Woods. 1854. Book.

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“A man is literally what he thinks.” — James Allen

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