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«If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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«How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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Happiness
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«Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.»
Author: Buddha
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Belief
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«The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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«What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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