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unverifiedThe wound is the place where the Light enters you.RumiNo primary locator recorded unverifiedThe mind is everything. What you think you become.BuddhaNo primary locator recorded misattributedI mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.Martin Luther King Jr.item 1 misattributedLadies and gentlemen of the class of 1997: Wear sunscreen.Kurt Vonnegutitem 2 misattributedBe the change you wish to see in the world.Mahatma Gandhiitem 3 misattributedFirst they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win.Mahatma Gandhiitem 4 misattributedThe ends justify the means.Niccolò Machiavelliitem 5 misattributedOur deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.Nelson Mandelaitem 6 alteredMoney is the root of all evil.The Bibleitem 7 alteredThe lion shall lay down with the lamb.The Bibleitem 8 alteredThat's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.Neil Armstrongitem 9 alteredHouston, we have a problem.Jim Lovellitem 10 misattributedFailure is not an option.Apollo 13 crewitem 11 alteredLife is like a box of chocolates.Forrest Gumpitem 12 misattributedMe Tarzan. You Jane.Tarzanitem 13 alteredDo you feel lucky, punk?Dirty Harryitem 14 alteredMirror, mirror on the wall …The Evil Queen in Snow Whiteitem 15 misattributedI want to suck your blood.Count Draculaitem 16 alteredHe's alive.Henry Frankensteinitem 17 alteredI don't think we're in Kansas anymore.Dorothy Galeitem 18 misattributedIt's life, Jim, but not as we know it.Spockitem 19 misattributedBeam me up, Scotty.James T. Kirkitem 20 alteredA rose by any other name smells just as sweet.William Shakespeareitem 21 alteredBubble, bubble, toil and trouble.William Shakespeareitem 22 alteredAlas, poor Yorick! I knew him well.William Shakespeareitem 23 alteredMethinks the lady doth protest too much.William Shakespeareitem 24 alteredAll that glitters is not gold.William Shakespeareitem 25 alteredHell hath no fury like a woman scorned.William Congreveitem 26 alteredDreams are the royal road to the unconscious.Sigmund Freuditem 27 misattributedSometimes a cigar is just a cigar.Sigmund Freuditem 28 misattributedI disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.Voltaireitem 29 misattributedI cannot tell a lie.George Washingtonitem 30 misattributedIf you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best.Marilyn Monroeitem 31 misattributedWell-behaved women rarely make history.Marilyn Monroeitem 32 alteredMay the Force be with you.Obi-Wan Kenobiitem 33 alteredLuke, I am your father.Darth Vaderitem 34 misattributedHello, Clarice.Hannibal Lecteritem 35 alteredI love the smell of napalm in the morning.Lieutenant Colonel Kilgoreitem 36 alteredYou want the truth? You can't handle the truth.Colonel Nathan Jessupitem 37 misattributedThe only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy, and the lash.Winston Churchillitem 38 alteredBlood, sweat, and tears.Winston Churchillitem 39 misattributedThe British are coming!Paul Revereitem 40 misattributedThe only two certainties in life are death and taxes.Mark Twainitem 41 misattributedI have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.Mark Twainitem 42 alteredReports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.Mark Twainitem 43 misattributedDon't fire 'til you see the whites of their eyes.Andrew Jacksonitem 44 alteredThe journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.Confuciusitem 45 alteredA little knowledge is a dangerous thing.Alexander Popeitem 46 alteredWalk softly, but carry a big stick.Theodore Rooseveltitem 47 alteredGo confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.Henry David Thoreauitem 48 misattributedI did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.Ginger Rogersitem 49 misattributedLet them eat cake!Marie Antoinetteitem 50 verifiedNothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.Booker T. WashingtonUp from Slavery, 1901 verifiedSuccess is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.Booker T. WashingtonUp from Slavery, 1901 verifiedSuccess is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.Booker T. WashingtonUp From Slavery, 1901 verifiedI am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.Charlotte BrontëJane Eyre, ch. 23 verifiedI care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.Charlotte BrontëJane Eyre, ch. 27 verifiedFriendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.CiceroDe Amicitia, VI.20 verifiedGratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.CiceroPro Plancio, XXXIII verifiedIs it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?ConfuciusAnalects, I.1 verifiedLearning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.ConfuciusAnalects, II.15 verifiedWhen you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it — this is knowledge.ConfuciusAnalects, II.17 verifiedTo see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.ConfuciusAnalects, II.24 verifiedWhen the year becomes cold, then we know how the pine and the cypress are the last to lose their leaves.ConfuciusAnalects, IX.27 verifiedWith coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow — I have still joy in the midst of these things.ConfuciusAnalects, VII.15 verifiedRecompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.ConfuciusAnalects, XIV.36 verifiedWhat you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.ConfuciusAnalects, XV.23 verifiedWant of forbearance in small matters confounds great plans.ConfuciusAnalects, XV.26 verifiedTo have faults and not to reform them — this, indeed, should be pronounced having faults.ConfuciusAnalects, XV.29 verifiedWe turn not older with years, but newer every day.Emily DickinsonLetter, 1872 verifiedThat Love is all there is, is all we know of Love.Emily DickinsonPoem 1765 verifiedHope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.Emily DickinsonPoem 254 verifiedThe Soul selects her own Society — then — shuts the Door.Emily DickinsonPoem 303 verifiedThe Brain — is wider than the Sky —Emily DickinsonPoem 632 verifiedIt is difficulties that show what men are.EpictetusDiscourses, I.24 verifiedFor it is impossible for a man to begin to learn that which he thinks that he knows.EpictetusDiscourses, II.17 (George Long translation, 1877)verifiedFirst say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.EpictetusDiscourses, III.23 verifiedOf things some are in our power, and others are not.EpictetusEnchiridion, 1 (George Long translation, 1877)verifiedNever say about anything, I have lost it, but say I have restored it.EpictetusEnchiridion, 11 (George Long translation, 1877)verifiedIn every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.EpictetusEnchiridion, 29 verifiedMen are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.EpictetusEnchiridion, 5 verifiedMen are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.EpictetusEnchiridion, 5 verifiedMen are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.EpictetusEnchiridion, 5 verifiedSeek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.EpictetusEnchiridion, 8 verifiedMen are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.EpictetusEnchiridion, ch. 5 verifiedMen are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.EpictetusEnchiridion, V verifiedMen are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.EpictetusEnchiridion, V verifiedIn every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.EpictetusEnchiridion, XXIX verifiedYou have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, ch. X verifiedIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.Frederick DouglassWest India Emancipation address, 1857 verifiedPower concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.Frederick DouglassWest India Emancipation address, 1857 verifiedIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.Frederick DouglassWest India Emancipation, 1857 verifiedThe growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts.George EliotMiddlemarch, Finale verifiedThere is no remedy for love but to love more.Henry David ThoreauJournal, 1839 verifiedA man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854 verifiedI had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854 verifiedI have never yet met a man who was quite awake.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854 verifiedI know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854 verifiedI know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854 verifiedI love a broad margin to my life.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854 verifiedI never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854 verifiedI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854 verifiedIf one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854 verifiedIf you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854 verifiedIn the long run men hit only what they aim at.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854 verifiedIn the long run, men hit only what they aim at.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854 verifiedMorning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854 verifiedOnly that day dawns to which we are awake.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854 verifiedOur life is frittered away by detail.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854 verifiedThere is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854 verifiedThings do not change; we change.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854 verifiedTime is but the stream I go a-fishing in.Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854 verifiedYou must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.Jane AustenPride and Prejudice, ch. 34 verifiedNever esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect.Marcus AureliusMeditations, III.7 (George Long translation, 1862)verifiedDo not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years.Marcus AureliusMeditations, IV.17 (George Long translation, 1862)verifiedNothing for me is too early nor too late, which is in due time for thee.Marcus AureliusMeditations, IV.23 verifiedBe like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.Marcus AureliusMeditations, IV.49 (George Long translation, 1862)verifiedIn the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present—I am rising to the work of a human being.Marcus AureliusMeditations, V.1 (George Long translation, 1862)verifiedBe not disgusted, nor discouraged, nor dissatisfied, if thou dost not succeed in doing everything according to right principles, but when thou hast failed, return back again.Marcus AureliusMeditations, V.9 (George Long translation, 1862)verifiedTake care that thou art not made into a Caesar, that thou art not dyed with this dye; for such things happen.Marcus AureliusMeditations, VI.30 (George Long translation, 1862)verifiedThe best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrongdoer.Marcus AureliusMeditations, VI.6 verifiedThink not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast.Marcus AureliusMeditations, VII.27 verifiedConfine thyself to the present.Marcus AureliusMeditations, VII.29 (George Long translation, 1862)verifiedLook within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.Marcus AureliusMeditations, VII.59 verifiedLook within. Within is the fountain of good.Marcus AureliusMeditations, VII.59 verifiedBe not ashamed to be helped.Marcus AureliusMeditations, VII.7 verifiedMen exist for the sake of one another.Marcus AureliusMeditations, VIII.59 verifiedMen exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.Marcus AureliusMeditations, VIII.59 verifiedA good disposition is invincible if it be genuine.Marcus AureliusMeditations, XI.18 (George Long translation, 1862)verifiedIf it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.Marcus AureliusMeditations, XII.17 verifiedThe bees plunder the flowers here and there, but afterwards they make of them honey, which is all their own.Michel de MontaigneEssays, I.26 verifiedThe most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness.Michel de MontaigneEssays, I.26 verifiedBecause it was he, because it was I.Michel de MontaigneEssays, I.28 verifiedWe must reserve a back shop wholly our own and entirely free, wherein to establish our true liberty.Michel de MontaigneEssays, I.39 verifiedWhen I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep.Michel de MontaigneEssays, III.13 verifiedNothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.Ralph Waldo EmersonCircles, 1841 verifiedHitch your wagon to a star.Ralph Waldo EmersonCivilization, 1870 verifiedThe only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo EmersonFriendship, 1841 verifiedSelf-trust is the essence of heroism.Ralph Waldo EmersonHeroism, 1841 verifiedThe stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.Ralph Waldo EmersonNature, 1836 verifiedConcentration is the secret of strength.Ralph Waldo EmersonPower, 1860 verifiedEnvy is ignorance; imitation is suicide.Ralph Waldo EmersonSelf-Reliance, 1841 verifiedGod will not have his work made manifest by cowards.Ralph Waldo EmersonSelf-Reliance, 1841 verifiedIt is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.Ralph Waldo EmersonSelf-Reliance, 1841 verifiedNothing can bring you peace but yourself.Ralph Waldo EmersonSelf-Reliance, 1841 verifiedNothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.Ralph Waldo EmersonSelf-Reliance, 1841 verifiedThese roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they exist with God to-day.Ralph Waldo EmersonSelf-Reliance, 1841 verifiedTo believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.Ralph Waldo EmersonSelf-Reliance, 1841 verifiedTrust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.Ralph Waldo EmersonSelf-Reliance, 1841 verifiedWhoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.Ralph Waldo EmersonSelf-Reliance, 1841 verifiedWrite it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.Ralph Waldo EmersonWorks and Days, 1870 verifiedBegin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.SenecaLetters to Lucilius, CI verifiedOur lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty; the difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.SenecaLetters to Lucilius, CIV (Richard M. Gummere translation, 1925)verifiedWhile we are postponing, life speeds by.SenecaLetters to Lucilius, I verifiedNowhere is he who is everywhere.SenecaLetters to Lucilius, II verifiedTo be everywhere is to be nowhere.SenecaLetters to Lucilius, II verifiedPonder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul.SenecaLetters to Lucilius, III verifiedWhen a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.SenecaLetters to Lucilius, LXXI (Richard M. Gummere translation, 1920)verifiedAs long as you live, keep learning how to live.SenecaLetters to Lucilius, LXXVI verifiedNo good thing is pleasant to possess without friends to share it.SenecaLetters to Lucilius, VI verifiedMen learn while they teach.SenecaLetters to Lucilius, VII verifiedWithdraw into yourself as much as you can.SenecaLetters to Lucilius, VII verifiedI do not obey God, I agree with him.SenecaLetters to Lucilius, XCVI verifiedCherish some man of high character, and keep him ever before your eyes, living as if he were watching you.SenecaLetters to Lucilius, XI verifiedThere are more things likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.SenecaLetters to Lucilius, XIII verifiedWe suffer more often in imagination than in reality.SenecaLetters to Lucilius, XIII verifiedTreat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters.SenecaLetters to Lucilius, XLVII verifiedHe who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first instalment of it.SenecaOn Benefits, II.22 verifiedFire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.SenecaOn Providence, V verifiedI exist as I am, that is enough.Walt WhitmanLeaves of Grass, "Song of Myself"verifiedI exist as I am, that is enough.Walt WhitmanLeaves of Grass, Song of Myself verifiedAfoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.Walt WhitmanLeaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road verifiedI celebrate myself, and sing myself.Walt WhitmanSong of Myself verifiedI exist as I am, that is enough.Walt WhitmanSong of Myself verifiedI loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.Walt WhitmanSong of Myself verifiedI loafe and invite my soul.Walt WhitmanSong of Myself verifiedYou shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books.Walt WhitmanSong of Myself, Leaves of Grass verifiedI am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.Walt WhitmanSong of the Open Road verifiedThe course of true love never did run smooth.William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night’s Dream, I.i verifiedAnd as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name.William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night’s Dream, V.1 verifiedThe web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.William ShakespeareAll’s Well That Ends Well, IV.3 verifiedSweet are the uses of adversity.William ShakespeareAs You Like It, II.1 verifiedThis above all: to thine own self be true.William ShakespeareHamlet, I.3 verifiedThose friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel.William ShakespeareHamlet, I.3 verifiedThis above all: to thine own self be true.William ShakespeareHamlet, I.iii verifiedBrevity is the soul of wit.William ShakespeareHamlet, II.2 verifiedThere is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.William ShakespeareHamlet, II.2 verifiedTo sleep, perchance to dream — ay, there's the rub.William ShakespeareHamlet, III.1 verifiedThe readiness is all.William ShakespeareHamlet, V.2 verifiedUneasy lies the head that wears a crown.William ShakespeareHenry IV, Part 2, III.1 verifiedUneasy lies the head that wears a crown.William ShakespeareHenry IV, Part 2, III.i verifiedCowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.William ShakespeareJulius Caesar, II.2 verifiedCowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.William ShakespeareJulius Caesar, II.ii verifiedThere is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.William ShakespeareJulius Caesar, IV.3 verifiedThere is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.William ShakespeareJulius Caesar, IV.3 verifiedThere is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.William ShakespeareJulius Caesar, IV.iii verifiedPray you now, forget and forgive.William ShakespeareKing Lear, IV.7 verifiedPresent fears are less than horrible imaginings.William ShakespeareMacbeth, I.3 verifiedI have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself.William ShakespeareMacbeth, I.7 verifiedScrew your courage to the sticking-place, and we’ll not fail.William ShakespeareMacbeth, I.7 verifiedSleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.William ShakespeareMacbeth, II.2 verifiedThings without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.William ShakespeareMacbeth, III.2 verifiedOur doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.William ShakespeareMeasure for Measure, I.iv verifiedHow poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?William ShakespeareOthello, II.iii verifiedTrue hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings.William ShakespeareRichard III, V.2 verifiedThe quality of mercy is not strained.William ShakespeareThe Merchant of Venice, IV.1 verifiedWe are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.William ShakespeareThe Tempest, IV.1 verifiedThe rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.William ShakespeareThe Tempest, V.1 verifiedPerseverance, dear my lord, keeps honour bright.William ShakespeareTroilus and Cressida, III.3 verifiedI can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks.William ShakespeareTwelfth Night, III.iii

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