Bruno Yasienski
William Butler Yeats
Melvin Yoken
Alistair J.R. Young
Brigham Young
Edward Young
Lin Yutang
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Do not be afraid of enemies; the worst they can do is kill you. Do not be afraid of friends; the worst they can do is betray you. Be afraid of the indifferent; they do not kill or betray. But only because of their silent agreement, betrayal and murder exist on earth.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
Love and death are linked inexorably in the romantic imagination because they are both means of escape from the imperfections of life.
There are very few problems that cannot be solved by orders ending with "or die."
If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy, you educate one, but if you educate a girl, you educate a generation.
Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
A God all mercy is a God unjust.
None think the great unhappy but the great.
A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
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