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Robert Penn Warren

The poem... is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life.

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T. H. White, fully Terence Hanbury White

The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails.

Wisdom | Learn |

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Hugh Walpole, fully Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Play | Wisdom | World |

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Edward Noyes Westcott

I've often had to notice that a man'll sometimes do the foolishist thing or the meanest thing in his hull life after he's dead.

Life | Life | Man | Wisdom |

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, sometimes called "The Iron Duke"

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

Fear | Wisdom | Afraid |

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There is no such thing as an average man. Each one of us is a unique individual. Each one of us expresses his humanity and his divinity in some distinctly different way. The beauty and the bloom of each human soul is a thing apart - a separate holy miracle under God, never once repeated throughout all the millenniums of time.

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Chögyam Trungpa, fully Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Usually people interested in spiritual development think in terms of the importance of mind, that mysterious, high and deep thing that we have decided to learn about. But strangely enough, the profound and the transcendental are to be found in the factory. It may not fill you with bliss to look at it, it may not sound as good as the spiritual experiences that we have read about, but somehow reality is to be found there in the way in which we relate with everyday problems. If we relate to them in a simple, earthy way, we will work in a more balanced manner, and things will be dealt with properly.

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Thales, aka Thales of Miletus NULL

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Life | Life | Wisdom |

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Tertullian, fully Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullian NULL

Every creation is subject to recurrence. Every thing you meet had a previous existence: whatever you have lost will come again. Every thing comes a second time: all things return to a settled position when they have gone away, all things begin when they have ceased to be. They are brought to an end in order that they may come into being: nothing is lost except that it may be recovered. All this revolving order of things, therefore, is evidence of the resurrection of the dead. God ordained it in works before He commanded it in writing, He proclaimed it by strength before he proclaimed it in words. He first sent you nature as teacher, intending to send you prophecy also, in order that having learnt from nature, you may the more easily believe prophecy.

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Virgil Thomson

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Fear | Time | Wisdom | Learn |

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Alexis de Tocqueville, fully Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville

It is important not to confuse stability with force, or the greatness of a thing with its duration.

Force | Greatness | Important | Wisdom |

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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Just as divine truth is what God orders and produces as He comes to know it, so human truth is what man arranges and makes as he knows it. In this way knowledge is cognition of the genus or mode by which a thing is made, and by means of which, as the mind comes to know the mode, because it arranges the elements, it makes the thing. Divine truth is solid because God grasps all things; human truth is two-dimensional because man grasps the externals of things.