"Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon."

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"A witty saying proves nothing."

Voltaire, French Writer

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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

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"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."

Robert Benchley, American Comedian

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"Saying nothing... sometimes says the most."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"Thou hast seen nothing yet."

Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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"It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."

Tom Stoppard, English Dramatist

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"The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing."

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"And the Spring arose on the garden fair,Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breastRose from the dreams of its wintry rest."

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"Man who man would be must rule the empire of himself."

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"I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science."

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"How many a rustic Milton has passed by Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies no longer tameless then To mould a pin or fabricate a nail!"

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"As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair so an unsuccessful author turns critic."

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"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."

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"History is: Fables agreed upon - Voltaire The biography of a few stout and earnest persons - Ralph Waldo Emerson A vast Mississippi of falsehood - Matthew Arnold A confused heap of facts - Lord Chesterfield A cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man."

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"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."

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"At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?"

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"Yes! all is past-swift time has fled away,Yet its swell pauses on my sickening mind;How long will horror nerve this frame of clay?I'm dead, and lingers yet my soul behind.Oh! powerful Fate, revoke thy deadly spell,And yet that may not ever, ever be,Heaven will not smile upon the work of Hell;Ah! no, for Heaven cannot smile on me;Fate, envious Fate, has sealed my wayward destiny."

Destiny, Fate, Horror, Power