"When all the world dissolves,
And every creature shall be purified,
All places shall be hell that are not heaven."-Christopher Marlowe
"O, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.-"Christopher Marlowe
"Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear."-William Shakespeare
"The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me." -Sloan Wilson
"Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may."- Plato
"Two roads diverged in a wood and I --
I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost
"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."
-Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
"And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead." -Matthew 8:21-22
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic." -Josef Stalin
"The report of my death was an exaggeration." -Mark Twain , After reading his own obituary, June 2, 1897
"Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever." -Kahlil Gibran , "The Voice of the Poet"
"What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?" -Kahlil Gibran , "The Visit of Wisdom"
"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."
-A. C. Benson , From a College Window
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
-Albert Einstein
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
-Carl Sagan
"For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'" -John Greenleaf Whittier , "Maud Muller"
"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god." -Aristotle , Politics
"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet." -Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
"A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man."
-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, 1911
"There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire."
-Jules Renard, Journal, December, 1900
"I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
-Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
"Everyone has a talent, what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."
-Erica Jong, The Craft of Poetry
"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."
-Abraham Lincoln
"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."
-Henry Van Dyke
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."
-Buddha
"Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself."
-Plato
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