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• Quote 3134

  Human beings can alter their lifes by altering their attitudes of mind.

  by: William James

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• Quote 3131

  The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

  by: William James

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• Quote 3094

  There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

  by: Douglas William Jerrold

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• Quote 3053

  Every generation needs regeneration

  by: Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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• Quote 3020

  There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad

  by: John Burroughs

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• Quote 3005

  Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

  by: John Burroughs

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• Quote 2981

  Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives

  by: Hyppolyte Taine

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• Quote 2967

  Nature is a revelation of God; art is a revelation of man

  by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• Quote 2950

  Music is the universal language of mankind

  by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• Quote 2927

  All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2905

  Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2892

  If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve

  by: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Quote 2825

  The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend

  by: Charles Lamb

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• Quote 2795

  Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind, it is only the difference in the victim

  by: Alphonse Marie Louis Prat de Lamartine

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• Quote 2772

  The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women

  by: Karl Kraus

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• Quote 2744

  Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man

  by: John Keats

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• Quote 2737

  Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer

  by: John Keats

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• Quote 2729

  Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?

  by: John Keats

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• Quote 2718

  There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish

  by: John Keats

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• Quote 2695

  Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer

  by: Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

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• Quote 2667

  It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite

  by: Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

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• Quote 2666

  That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sighs into eternity

  by: Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

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• Quote 2658

  Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further

  by: Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

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• Quote 2649

  Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

  by: Joseph Rudyard Kipling

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• Quote 2630

  Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

  by: Franz Kafka

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