Quotations

Robert Browning    Ralph Waldo Emerson    Oscar Wilde    William Sharp
Nietzsche    Martin Luther King, Jr   

Robert Browning


Truth is within ourselves

Error has no end

I judge people by what they be,--not are, nor will be--

God's in his his heaven: All's right with the world




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Ralph Waldo Emerson


The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

The standard of beauty is the the entire circuit of natural forms

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression

...nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind

If eyes were made for seeing then beauty is its own excuse for being

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote-

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die

In every work of genius we recognize our rejected thoughts

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your own private heart is true for all men,--that is genius

Though we travel the world over to fins the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not

People only see what they have been prepared to see

And every man, in love or pride, of his fate is ever wide

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you

To be great is misunderstood

The ornament of beauty is suspect, a crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air

I became a transparent eyeball...I am nothing, I see all

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Oscar Wilde


Where there is sorrow there is holy ground

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some With a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave with a sword.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror

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William Sharp


Love is a beautiful dream

Across the silent stream
Where the dream-shadows go,
From the dim blue Hill of Dream
I have heard the west wind blow.

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Nietzsche


Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man

Insanity is the exception in individual. In groups, peoples, and times it is the rule

Necessity is not a fact but an interpretation

The thought of suicide is a great consolation; one can get through many a bad night with it

There are no facts, only interpretations

There is only one success---to be able to spend your life in your own way

It is easier to be gigantic than to be beautiful

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you

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Martin Luther King Jr


Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends

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