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H.L. Mencken - It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
Josh Billings - It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.
H.L. Mencken - The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
Socrates - My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Anais Nin - Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Think, In mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence.
George Bernard Shaw - I can't forgive my friends for dying I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
Josh Billings - Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Always do what you are afraid to do.
Lee Iacocca - People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
La Rochefoucauld - True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.