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| 8a46701 | There is no gem like truth, no wealth like knowledge, no treasure like understanding, and no jewel like love. There is no gem like gratitude, no wealth like humility, no treasure like patience, and no jewel like virtue, There is no gem like peace, no wealth like contentment, no treasure like faith, and no jewel like joy. There is no gem like time, no wealth like experience, no treasure like reality, and no jewel like life. There i.. | guru-quotations sage-quotes african-philosopher-quotes african-philosophy-quotes african-quotes guru-quotes solomonology-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes wisdom-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| 3d598e5 | I am generous because I've been poor, cautious because I've been naive, strong because I've been afraid, clever because I've been foolish, mighty because I've been weak, kind because I've been downtrodden, cheerful because I've been miserable, patient because I've been reckless, modest because I've been humbled, calm because I've been confused, friendly because I've been ostracized, noble because I've been dishonoured, loyal because I'v.. | philosophy-quotations sage-quotes african-philosopher-quotes philosopher-quotes african-philosophy-quotes guru-quotes solomonology-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes enlightenment-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| 3fa7328 | It is easier to teach saints than to learn from sinners. It is easier to teach young students than to guide old fools. It is easier to chastise saints than to caution sinners. It is easier to shine in the dark than to glow in the light. It is easier to multiply enemies than to accumulate friends. It is easier to embrace your angel than to face your demons. It is easier to fight an army of opinions than a single truth. It is easier to rise w.. | philosopher-quotes philosophy-quotes guru-quotes wise-sayings-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes wisdom-quotations wise-quotations wise-quotes wisdom-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| 386507f | Many mickles make a muckle. | scottish-adage | Ron Chernow | |
| c52edca | We have left behind the rosy agrarian rhetoric and slaveholding reality of Jeffersonian democracy and reside in the bustling world of trade, industry, stock markets, and banks that Hamilton envisioned. (Hamilton's staunch abolitionism formed an integral feature of this economic vision.) He has also emerged as the uncontested visionary in anticipating the shape and powers of the federal government. At a time when Jefferson and Madison celebr.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 0b5316e | Philip's death was] beyond comparison the most afflicting of my life.... He was truly a fine youth. But why should I repine? It was the will of heaven and he is now out of the reach of the seductions and calamities of a world full of folly, full of vice, full of danger, of least value in proportion as it is best known. I firmly trust also that he has safely reached the haven of eternal repose and felicity. (Alexander Hamilton letter to Benj.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 7a4fcfc | Naming, thinks Jacob, even in ridicule, gives what is named substance. | David Mitchell | ||
| 5c84d6c | Don't let death, Jacob reproves himself, be your final thought. | David Mitchell | ||
| 9be04f5 | The world's twenty-seven richest people own more wealth than the poorest five billion, and people accept that as normal. | David Mitchell | ||
| f4336d9 | Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous. | David Mitchell | ||
| 30647ef | I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will. | humanity god | David Mitchell | |
| 904c9c3 | The rain's innumerable hooves spatter on the streets and roofs. | David Mitchell | ||
| 1688b73 | Coffee's the elixir of life. | David Mitchell | ||
| 9d2f25a | I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too. | David Mitchell | ||
| 8d26f63 | La risa es una blasfemia anarquica. Los tiranos hacen bien en temerla. | David Mitchell | ||
| 84607f9 | Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning. | music language | David Mitchell | |
| e9afa9c | I have no earliest memories, Archivist. Every day of my life in Papa Song was as uniform as the fries we vended. | David Mitchell | ||
| 94b46ef | The body is the outermost layer of the mind. | mind | David Mitchell | |
| 966339c | Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores. | David Mitchell | ||
| e52e23b | Can I just ask for an outline -" "Doesn't work like that. You need a leap of faith to leave your old life behind. True metamorphosis doesn't come with flowcharts." | metamorphosis | David Mitchell | |
| 47d7a86 | Time in the wood's older than time in clocks, and truer. | David Mitchell | ||
| ee5a3fd | What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's." | honesty self-justification self-perception | David Mitchell | |
| 7a3c692 | Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almighty's image, no, people are joints of meat; diseased, leathery meat, yes, but meat ready for the skewer & the spit." He mimicked my usual voice, very well. "'But why *me*, Henry, are we not friends?' Well, Adam, even friends are made out of meat." | murder friendship life surgeon meat | David Mitchell | |
| e004f28 | clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all. | David Mitchell | ||
| 57e3823 | I'd always worried but kissing's not so tricky. Your lips know what to do, just like sea anenomes know what to do. Kissing spins you, like Flying Tea-Cups. Oxygen the girl breathes out, you breathe in. | kissing love kissed kissing-quotes teenage-love | David Mitchell | |
| 9c4062d | It's the edges of the maps that fascinate ... | maps | David Mitchell | |
| c706626 | God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?! | scott-westerfeld peeps | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 28e2e1f | This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the globe, or perish together! | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 2bb3f23 | You have a bad habit of listing anything that can go wrong, Volger." "I have always considered that a good habit" -- | habits | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 16e71a9 | And here's what I realized: You Sly Girls don't cry when you watch the big-face parties on the feeds, just because you weren't invited. You don't stay friends with people you hate, just to bump your face rank. And even though nobody knows what you're doing out here, you don't feel invisible at all. Do you? No one answered, but they were listening. Fame is radically stupid, that's all. So I want to try something else. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 321c780 | Sleep is a little slice of death. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 8479c5f | Fuzzy Tally is no more. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| c8dd12c | I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people. | funny humor parasites zombies vampires | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 2077a38 | righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 72c6462 | Once," he added, "you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain." | true-will taran dallben | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 8015c93 | Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty too. | love beauty-in-nature | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 2be05ab | She was the most confusing person he had ever met | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| afba1ba | The paramedics said there was nothing unusual, just the way it goes, eighty some years and the inevitable kerplunk, the system goes down, lights blink out and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| c912a9e | Any two people can set and jaw all day long, but it takes two people right for each other to set together and just be quiet. | Silas House | ||
| 0b86053 | The real artist with no tear in his eye and no sadness in his heart, puts the pages in the fire and does it again!" "All art is a metaphor it's by telling you one thing when your mean something else. | Harry Crews | ||
| a573d56 | Fire-lizard dance on wing To the raucous song I sing. Fire-lizrad wheel and turn, Show me how the dragons learn. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| d32d839 | Look around you, Lessa of Pern, look around the Weyr with unveiled eyes. Old and hallowed is the Weyr? Yes, but shabby and worn - and disregarded. Yes, you were elated to sit in the Weyrwoman's great chair at the Council Table, but the padding is thin and the fabric dusty. Humbled to think your hands rest where Moreta's and Torene's had rested? Well, the stone is ingrained with dirt and needs a good scrubbing. And your rump may rest where t.. | lessa | Anne McCaffrey | |
| 29833f3 | I cud feal some thing growing in me it wer like a grean sea surging in me it wer saying, LOSE IT. Saying, LET GO. Saying, THE ONLYES POWER IS NO POWER | Russell Hoban | ||
| 0b14f46 | A turtle doesn't have to decide every morning whether to keep on bothering, it just carries on. Maybe that's why man kills everything: envy. | Russell Hoban |