Henry David Thoreau on Actual Friends and Cousins
“How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal
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Literature
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Two Lasting Bequests
“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other,
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William Wordsworth on Powerful Feelings with Poetry
“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” ~ William Wordsworth
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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Your Dreams and Motivation
“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson View some more related quotes
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Mark Twain Quotes on an Irresistible Desire
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” ~ Mark Twain View some more Love quotes
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on the Noble Man
“To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on the King or Peasant
“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe View
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Mark Twain Quotes on Man and Getting Himself Loved
“Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.” ~ Mark
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on We Deceive Ourselves
“We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe View some more related quotes on Truth.
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Jane Austen Quotes on Happiness in Marriage
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.” ~ Jane Austen View some more quotes on Chance.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Doing Correction
“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe View some related quotes on Confidence.
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D. H. Lawrence Quotes on My Life Work
“I’ll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.” ~ D. H. Lawrence View some
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D. H. Lawrence Quotes on Life and Experience
Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really. ~ D.
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Mark Twain Quotes on Love and Abundance
“If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.” ~ Mark Twain View some more related quotes
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D. H. Lawrence Quotes on Life and Accomplishing History
“Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on How to Live Now
“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson View
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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Oversoul is Before Time
“The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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D. H. Lawrence Quotes on Life and Death
“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.” ~ D. H. Lawrence View some
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D. H. Lawrence Quotes on Human Soul and Beauty
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. ~ D. H. Lawrence View some more quotes on Soul
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Charles Dickens Quotes on Being a Father
“My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why
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