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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affection to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864
Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude ... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.
Aristotle, BCE 384-322
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
Swami Sivananda, 1887-1963
One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, b. 1916
Man himself is complete only when his four-fold nature, his spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical body are harnessed together in balance.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
On every mountain height
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain, 1835-1910
In jealousy, there is more self-love than love.
Duc De La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680
'Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.
John Armstrong, 1709-1779
Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
The descent to hell is easy: the gates stand open night and day; but to re-climb the slope and escape to the upper air: this is labour.
Virgil, BCE 70-19
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, 1769-1852
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a genius.
Frederick Henry Hedge, 1805-1890
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say truthfully, "I shall today be uppermost"?
Confucius, BCE 551-479
The soil, in return for the service, keeps the tree tied to her; the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.
Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941
The very calmness that grownups seem to bring with them into the fear-crowded darkness of a child's bedroom too often consists only in a hopeless insulation and imperviousness on their part, making them seem so superior and panic-proof that the child is driven to conceal from them all the really queer and terrible things he thinks and feels.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
For when the One Great Scorer comes
Grantland Rice, 1880-1954
How little do they see what really is
Robert Southey, 1774-1843
The real man lies in the depths of the subconscious.
H L Mencken, 1880-1956
Fate is the endless chain of causation whereby things are; it is the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
Zeno of Citium, c. BCE 340-265
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth, 1770-1850
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they very seldom venture to do anything.
Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1715-1747
He's a Fool that makes his doctor his heir.
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
Justice is truth in actions.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
Anne Swetchine, 1782-1857
... In dream consciousness ... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator. In our creativity we prolong the magic action of the Creator of All in the overflow of His imagination, which is all that reality is, or ever will be.
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, b. 1916
The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
Seneca, BCE ?1-65 CE
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
Earl of Chesterfield, 1694-1773
The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world.
Robertson Davies, 1913-95
Is rest.
To write against your name,
He marks not that you won or lost
But how you played the game.
Who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.