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"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."

Life, Happiness, Man, Right

"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others."

Life, Business

"The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next."

Philosophy, Age, Heresy

"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."

Attitude, Flowers, Limitations, Yearning

"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."

Peace, Understanding, Want

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."

Courage, Will

"Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either."

Wisdom, Experience, People, Nothing

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."

Love, Heart, World

"It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal."

Wisdom, Travel, Goal, Desire

"Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful."

Wisdom, Senses, Sight

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"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Wisdom, Heart

"Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value."

Louis L'Amour, American Author

Wisdom, Knowledge, Quantity, Value

"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Wisdom, Country, Majority, May, Nation

"When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough."

Fran Lebowitz, American Journalist

Wisdom, Rest, World

"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

Wisdom, Equality, Being, Living, Race

"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."

George Washington, American President

Wisdom, Experience, Enemy, Possession

"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

Wisdom, Infinity, Nothing, Reason

"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

Wisdom, Difficulty, Will

"Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

Wisdom, Deeds

"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Wisdom, Policy