I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Author:
Michelangelo
Subject:
Art
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Author:
John F. Kennedy
Subject:
Enemy
American Presidential Quotes
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
Author:
Horace
Subject:
Wisdom
Future
Work: Odes
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The good befriend themselves.
Author:
Sophocles
Subject:
Friendship
Good
Quotes from Plays
Work: Oedipus at Colonus
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This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Author:
Plato
Subject:
Community
Citizen
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Government
American Presidential Quotes
Citizen
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We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Author:
Horace
Subject:
Happiness
Life
Death
Work: Satires
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We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.
Author:
Bill Clinton
Subject:
American Presidential Quotes
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Author:
Sophocles
Subject:
Grief
Work: Oedipus Rex
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The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that man are convertible.
Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject:
Mankind
Teaching
Human Nature
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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Author:
Albert Einstein
Subject:
Beauty
Truth
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ours not to reason why
Author:
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Subject:
Duty
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
Subject:
Choice
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The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
Subject:
Appearance & Attitudes
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Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
Author:
Winston Churchill
Subject:
War
Politics
British Prime Minister Quotes
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Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Author:
Albert Einstein
Subject:
Truth
Trust
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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Equality
American Presidential Quotes
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Ambition
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Author:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Subject:
Doubt
Future
American Presidential Quotes
Work: message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945
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