Aphorisms
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Mark Twain

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Winston Churchill

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Art is born of humiliation.

W. H. Auden

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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

A. A. Milne

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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Epictetus

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Whatever you are, be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Michel de Montaigne

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Emily Dickinson

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Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Vladimir Nabokov

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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

Edsger Dijkstra

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Maimonides

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Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

Robert Delaunay

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Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

Og Mandino

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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

Alexander Smith

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