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E.M.Forster quotes:

"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."

"You can transmute love, muddle it, ignore it... but you can never pull it out of you..."

"To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way."

"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves."

"Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice..."

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George Bernard Shaw's quotes:

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth."

"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."

"Lack of money is the root of all evil."

"When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
(from his play "Mrs. Warren's Profession")

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Oscar Wilde quotes:

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

"I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones."

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. "

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. "

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. "

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. "

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Mark Twain quotes:

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

"Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

Many more of his witty and sarcastic quotes can be found at:
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Mark_Twain/31

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"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." Robert Frost


"If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have. "Sir James M. Barrie

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Don't forget to love yourself. "Soren Kierkegaard

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"Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul."

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent." Victor Hugo

"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have." Edgar Watson Howe

"Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music." Marcel Marceau

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"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." Euripides, Greek playwrite

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success." Oscar Wilde

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"Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still." Lou Erickso

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." Buddha

"Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian." Shari R. Barr

" Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever..." Isak Dinesen

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"Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow." Maria Mitchell

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain

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"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." Abraham Lincoln

"Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die." Amelia Burr

"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light." Barry Lopez

"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." Dorothy Thompson

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"All books are divisible into two categories, the books of the hour, and the books of all time." John Ruskin, British philosopher

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Francis Bacon, British philosopher

"Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." Hector Berlioz

"The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not." Thomas Carlyle

"Promises and piecrusts are made to be broken, they say."Jonathan Swift