Quote #11181
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.
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Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by...
Quote #12381
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it...
Quote #3393
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time...
Quote #10297
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations...
Quote #32750
So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the...
Quote #20468
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only...
Quote #18615
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve we must not...
Quote #14460
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised...
Quote #2859
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.