Aphorisms
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Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Lao Tzu

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Bernard Williams

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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Carl Sagan

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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

Samuel Beckett

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We find comfort among those who agree with us — growth among those who don't.

Frank A. Clark

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Jung

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Thomas Paine

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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Lao Tzu

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T. S. Eliot

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Music is the universal language of mankind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson

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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The environment is everything that isn't me.

Albert Einstein

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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Henry Ford

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