Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
-- Anne Bradstreet

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
-- Margaret Fuller

Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.
-- Goethe

The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole

Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
-- George Eliot

I am not wise.  Not knowing, and learning to be comfortable with not knowing, is a great discovery.
-- Sue Bender

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.
-- Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
-- Henry Steele Commager

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
-- Noam Chomsky

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
-- Heinrich Heine

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
-- Oscar Wilde

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
-- Goncourt

In three words, I can sum up everything I�ve learned about life.  It goes on.
-- Robert Frost

Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.
--William Shakespeare

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
--Chinese proverb

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
-- Ursula K. le Guinn

Bad is never good until worse happens.
-- Danish Proverb

There is nothing new except what is forgotten.
--Mlle. Bertin
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