What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Subject:
Effort   
Writing   
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Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
Subject:
Employment   
Business   
American Presidential Quotes   
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There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
Author:
Voltaire
Subject:
Conversation   
Silence   
Deception   
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Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
Author:
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Subject:
Silence   
Work:
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Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Destruction   
Mankind   
Human Nature   
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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Author:
Henry David Thoreau
Subject:
Genius   
Life   
Health   
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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Author:
Winston Churchill
Subject:
War   
British Prime Minister Quotes   
Work:
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Author:
Horace
Subject:
Wisdom   
Wealth   
Poverty   
Work: Odes
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It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Evil   
Good   
American Presidential Quotes   
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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Author:
Max Eastman
Subject:
Happiness   
Art   
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Sincerity   
Honor   
Corrupt   
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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
Author:
William Blake
Subject:
Ambition   
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We make war that we may live in peace.
Author:
Aristotle
Subject:
Peace   
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I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Author:
Martin Luther King Jr.
Subject:
Power   
Good   
Morality   
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Author:
Martin Luther King Jr.
Subject:
Freedom   
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Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Life   
Endings   
Age   
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
Author:
Janis Joplin
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Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.
Author:
Robert Frost
Subject:
Love & Romance   
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Author:
Albert Einstein
Subject:
Knowledge   
Imagination   
World   
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