It is a descending stream of pure activity which is the dynamic
force of the universe.

          Kabbalah (B.C. 1200?-700? A.D.)
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Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.

              Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
@@
Action is eloquence.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
The end of man is action, and not thought,
though it be of the noblest.

                      Carlyle (1795-1881)
@@
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

                 George Eliot (1819-1880)
@@
Action is coarsened thought;
thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

         Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
@@
Everything is energy in motion.

      Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (born 1916)
@@
As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become.
The doer of good becomes good.
The doer of evil becomes evil.
One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

                 Upanishads (c. B.C. 800)
@@
One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction,
is intelligent among men.

              Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
@@
The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order
to attain non-action.  One must not wish to leap over everything
and penetrate directly.

                    Lu Yen (fl. 800 A.D.)
@@
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions;
desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
                       Pascal (1623-1662)
@@
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
The more we do, the more we can do;
the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

                      Hazlitt (1778-1830)
@@
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision;
and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

                       Colton (1780-1832)
@@
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

                  Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
@@
Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.

                     Disraeli (1804-1881)
@@
Think like a man of action,
act like a man of thought.

          Henri Louis Bergson (1859-1941)
@@
Action without study is fatal.
Study without action is futile.

                   Mary Beard (1876-1958)
@@
This universe is a trinity and this is made of name, form, and action.
The source of all actions is the body, for it is by the body that
all actions are done. The body is behind all actions, even as
the Eternal is behind the body.

                 Upanishads (c. B.C. 800)
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Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower  are the three
factors which motivate action;
the senses, the work and the doer  comprise the threefold basis
of action.

              Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
@@
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes:
chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
                 Aristotle (B.C. 384-322)
@@
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme
as we please.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

                   John Locke (1632-1704)
@@
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
Action hangs, as it were, "dissolved" in speech, in 
thoughts whereof speech is the shadow;  and precipitates 
itself there from.  The kind of speech in a man betokens 
the kind of action you will get from him.

                      Carlyle (1795-1881)
@@
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments
in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

                 James Lowell (1819-1891)
@@
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

                Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)
@@
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

       Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895)
@@
According to real, exact knowledge, one force, or two forces,
can never produce a phenomenon.
The presence of a third force is necessary, for it is only with
the help of a third force that the first two can produce what
may be called a phenomenon, no matter in what sphere.

                    Gurdjieff (1873-1949)
@@
Actions are the seed of Fate Deeds grow into Destiny.

            A. L. Linall, Jr. (born 1947)
@@
To talk goodness is not good...
Only to do it is.

                          Chinese Proverb
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To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

                 Sophocles (B.C. 495-406)
@@
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds.
A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy
reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness
gathers love.

                     Basil (329-379 A.D.)
@@
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

                    Cervantes (1547-1616)
@@
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
A good action is never lost;
it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

               Pedro Calderon (1600-1681)
@@
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost
power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

                 Robert South (1634-1716)
@@
Well done is better than well said.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all
eternity.

                      Lavater (1741-1801)
@@
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action;
yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

                   Wordsworth (1770-1850)
@@
It is well to think well;
it is divine to act well.

                  Horace Mann (1796-1859)
@@
Action is greater than writing.
A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author.
There are but two things worth living for:
to do what is worthy of being written;
and to write what is worthy of being read;
and the greater of these is the doing.

                  Albert Pike (1809-1891)
@@
But the good deed, through the ages 
 Living in historic pages,
Brighter grows and gleams immortal,
  Unconsumed by moth or rust.

                   Longfellow (1819-1892)
@@
Active natures are rarely melancholy.
Activity and sadness are incompatible.

                        Bovee (1820-1904)
@@
Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

                 Sophocles (B.C. 495-406)
@@
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has colour but no perfume,
so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them
not.

             The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 300)
@@
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

                   Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.)
@@
We should often be ashamed of our very best actions, if the world
only saw the motives which caused them.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts
into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
He who considers too much will perform little.

                     Schiller (1759-1805)
@@
When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good
reason for letting it alone.

                 Walter Scott (1771-1832)
@@
Mark this well, ye proud men of action!
ye are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the
men of thought.

                        Heine (1797-1856)
@@
We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action
looks mean.

                    Thackeray (1811-1863)
@@
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

               Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)
@@
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should
not be done at all.

             Peter F. Drucker (born 1909)
@@
One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth,
which is enduring and eternal.
The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the
times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

                     I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
@@
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks
according to his action.

                 Confucius (B.C. 551-479)
@@
Do not do what is already done.

                   Terence (B.C. 185-159)
@@
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect
the needful duties of active life;
for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation
to virtue.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
What one has, one ought to use:
and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
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To do an evil act is base.
To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough.
But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he
risks everything in doing them.

                   Plutarch (46-120 A.D.)
@@
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

               Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
@@
The shortest answer is doing.

                      Herbert (1593-1632)
@@
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action;
try to use ordinary situations.

                      Richter (1763-1825)
@@
Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so.
All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of
being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and
moon.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Speak out in acts;
the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

      John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
@@
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

              Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
@@
Trust no future, however pleasant!
 Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act, - act in the living Present!
 Heart within and God overhead.

                   Longfellow (1819-1892)
@@
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness
of thought combined with energy of will.

         Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
@@
Our only true course is to let the motive for action be in the action
itself, never in its reward;
not to be incited by the hope of the result, nor yet indulge a propensity
for inertness.

              H. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891)
@@
It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have
to be done;
for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched
into operation.

      Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (born 1916)
@@
Better do a good deed near at home than go far
away to burn incense.

                          Chinese Proverb
@@
 When a man dies, what does not leave him?
 The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his
eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the
quarters of heaven, his body into the earth, his spirit into
space, the hairs of his head into plants, and his blood and semen
are placed in water, what then becomes of this person?
 What remains is action.  It's quality becomes fate.
Verily, one becomes good by good action, bad by bad action.

                 Upanishads (c. B.C. 800)
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That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward
of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.
No, that deed is well done of which a man does not repent, and the
reward of which he receives gladly and cheerfully.

             The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 300)
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A wise man guides his own course of action;
The fool follows another's direction, When an old dog barks,
the others run, And this for no reason at all.

               Saskya Pandita (1182-1251)
@@
For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed
by their deeds.

               Robert Greene (1558?-1592)
@@
And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the
night.
                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
Each morning sees some task begun,
  Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
  Has earned a night's repose.

                   Longfellow (1819-1892)
@@
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

                  Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
@@
Hatred is inveterate anger.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
Anger is momentary madness.

                       Horace (B.C. 65-8)
@@
Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

               Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
@@
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

                         Pope (1688-1744)
@@
Hatred is self-punishment.

                 Hosea Ballou (1771-1852)
@@
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

          Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899)
@@
He who is slow to anger has great understanding,  but he who has
a hasty temper exalts folly.

               Proverbs (B.C. 1000?-200?)
@@
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

                Pythagoras (B.C. 582-507)
@@
For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time:
hatred ceases by love - this is an old rule.

             The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 300)
@@
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

            Cato the Elder (B.C. 234-149)
@@
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

                     Sallust (B.C. 86-34)
@@
If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury;
if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either
terrible or ridiculous.

                Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)
@@
Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe;
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

                William Blake (1757-1828)
@@
Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.

                       Colton (1780-1832)
@@
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to
others, but hides us from ourselves.

                       Colton (1780-1832)
@@
Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the
right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the
right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy.

                 Aristotle (B.C. 384-322)
@@
Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.

          Quintus Ennius (B.C. 239?-169?)
@@
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

                   Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.)
@@
Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
Anger may repast with thee for an hour,
but not repose for a night;
the continuance of anger is hatred,
the continuance of hatred turns malice.
That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.

                      Quarles (1592-1644)
@@
We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.

                  Vauvenargues(1715-1747)
@@
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike;
there is but one step from envy to hate.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of
yourself.  What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

                Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
@@
He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call
a real driver; other people are but holding the reins

             The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 300)
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I never work better than when I am inspired by anger;
for when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then
my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened,
and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

                Martin Luther (1483-1546)
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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

                        Byron (1788-1824)
@@
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Anger is a great force.  If you control it, it can be
transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

                    Sivananda (born 1887)
@@
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

                  Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
@@
As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees,
and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake
in its convulsions overturneth whole cities;
so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
There is such malice in men as to rejoice in misfortunes and from
another's woes to draw delight.

                   Terence (B.C. 185-159)
@@
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

            Publilius Syrus (fl. B.C. 42)
@@
There is no medicine to cure hatred.

            Publilius Syrus (fl. B.C. 42)
@@
Malice drinks one half of its own poison.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to
us than the injury that provokes it.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

                    Tacitus (55-117 A.D.)
@@
He whose anger causes no fear,
Who can confer no benefit when pleased,
Who can neither destroy nor subjugate,
What good is such a man's anger?

              Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.)
@@
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the
causes of it.

           Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.)
@@
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
Hatred is something peculiar.
You will always find it strongest and most violent where there
is the lowest degree of culture.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls;
they feed it with all their littleness,
and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

                       Balzac (1799-1850)
@@
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

                   G. B. Shaw (1856-1950)
@@
The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual
disposition in man...it constitutes the most powerful
obstacle to culture.

                Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
@@
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

                 Alfred Adler (1870-1937)
@@
Indulge not thyself in the passion of Anger;
it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy
friend.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are
cherished in the mind.
Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are
forgotten.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
@@
When anger rises, think of the consequences.

                 Confucius (B.C. 551-479)
@@
Take care that no one hates you justly.

            Publilius Syrus (fl. B.C. 42)
@@
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
Oppose not rage while rage is in its force,
but give it way a while and let it waste.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
Beware of him that is slow to anger;
anger, when it is long in coming,
is the stronger when it comes,
and the longer kept.
Abused patience turns to fury.

                      Quarles (1592-1644)
@@
Act nothing in a furious passion.
It's putting to sea in a storm.

                Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
@@
Think when you are enraged at any one, what would probably become
your sentiments should he die during the dispute.

            William Shenstone (1714-1763)
@@
When angry, count ten before you speak, if very angry, a hundred.

             Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
@@
To rule one's anger is well;
to prevent it is better.

                Tryon Edwards (1809-1894)
@@
If you have written a clever and conclusive, but scathing letter, keep
it back till the next day, and it will very often never go at all.

                      Lubbock (1834-1913)
@@
Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises
in the bosom of a man like smoke.

                      Homer (c. B.C. 700)
@@
When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction
for them;  attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.

              Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
@@
Although you may spend your life killing,
You will not exhaust all your foes.
But if you quell your own anger,
Your real enemy will be slain.
              Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.)
@@
In rage deaf as the sea;
hasty as fire.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
The brain may devise laws for the blood;
but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree:
such a hare is madness the youth, to skip over the meshes of good
counsel, the cripple.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor Hell a fury like a
woman scorned.

             William Congreve (1670-1729)
@@
Are you angry that others disappoint you?
Remember you cannot depend on yourself.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending
on a place of skulls.

                   Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
@@
When one God dwells in all living beings, then why do you hate others?
Why do you frown at others? Why do you become indignant towards others?
Why do you use harsh words? Why do you try to rule and domineer over others?
Why do you exploit folly? Is this not sheer ignorance?
Get wisdom and rest in peace.

                    Sivananda (born 1887)
@@
Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one
cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony
of the whole.

        Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472)
@@
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

                 Michelangelo (1474-1564)
@@
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and
the quality of the object which delights us.

                       Pascal (1623-1662)
@@
The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

                     Schiller (1759-1805)
@@
Beauty is the promise of happiness.

                     Stendhal (1783-1842)
@@
Beauty is truth, truth beauty.

                        Keats (1795-1821)
@@
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

              George Bancroft (1800-1891)
@@
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

        Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
@@
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

            Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
@@
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,
  There arises the recognition of ugliness.
When they all know the good as good,
  There arises the recognition of evil.
Therefore:  Being and non-being produce each other.

                   Lao-Tzu (fl. B.C. 600)
@@
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination;
if false, that it lessens.

                     Greville (1554-1628)
@@
To give pain is the tyranny;
to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

               Richard Steele (1672-1729)
@@
Grace has been defined
as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

                      Hazlitt (1778-1830)
@@
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty,
and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

        Elizabeth B. Browning (1806-1861)
@@
Beauty is the power by which a woman charms a lover
and terrifies a husband.

              Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
@@
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish,
cutting the heart asunder.

               Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
@@
Beauty is the wisdom of women.
Wisdom is the beauty of men.

                          Chinese Proverb
@@
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

                        Dante (1265-1321)
@@
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love;
there is a kind which only pleases the sight,
but does not captivate the affections.

                    Cervantes (1547-1616)
@@
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his
kind.

               Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
@@
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the
proportion.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts,
and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
                       Milton (1608-1674)
@@
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good;
but that which is good is always beautiful.

            Ninon de L'Enclos (1620-1705)
@@
Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.

             Christopher Wren (1632-1723)
@@
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul
than beauty.

                      Addison (1672-1719)
@@
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except
by those to whom it has been refused.

                       Gibbon (1737-1794)
@@
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise
would have been hidden from us forever.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners;
beauty in the nude, and in forms.
This is true of bodies;
but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality,
and grace in their moderation.

                      Joubert (1754-1824)
@@
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

                     Schiller (1759-1805)
@@
The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple;
which has not superfluous parts;
which exactly answers its ends.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

                Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
@@
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell
of the moment;
the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

                  George Sand (1804-1876)
@@
Beauty is not caused, - it is;
Chase it and it ceases,
Chase it not and it abides...

              Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
@@
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a
beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the
influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

                    Sappho (fl. B.C. 600)
@@
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter
of reference.

                 Aristotle (B.C. 384-322)
@@
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

                      Vergil (B.C. 70-19)
@@
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance
of a form divine.

                Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
@@
Beauty attracts us men;
but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and
silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

                      Richter (1763-1825)
@@
Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness
with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart
confess, The might - the majesty of Loveliness?

                        Byron (1788-1824)
@@
A thing of beauty is a joy forever, Its loveliness increases;
it will never Pass into nothingness.
                        Keats (1795-1821)
@@
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face;
it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures;
it is the finest of the fine arts.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates
beauty with truth.

                    Tuckerman (1813-1871)
@@
Beauty is power;
a smile is its sword.

                Charles Reade (1814-1884)
@@
Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius,
as it needs no explanation.  It is of the great facts in the world
like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water
of that silver shell we call the moon.

                  Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
@@
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

                  Socrates (B.C. 469-399)
@@
Nothing is beautiful from every point of view.

                       Horace (B.C. 65-8)
@@
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

                    Juvenal (40-125 A.D.)
@@
Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

                    John Lyly (1554-1606)
@@
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;
 A shining gloss that fadeth suddenly;
A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud;
 A brittle glass that's broken presently;
A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
  Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour;
Brightness falls from the air;
Queens have died young and fair;
Dust hath closed Helen's eye.

                 Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
@@
Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee;
nor too long, lest it blind thee;
nor too near, lest it burn thee.
If thou like it, it deceives thee;
if thou love it, it disturbs thee;
if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee.
If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise;
if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.
It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace.

                      Quarles (1592-1644)
@@
In beauty, faults conspicuous grow;
The smallest speck is seen in snow.

                          Gay (1688-1732)
@@
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

                         Pope (1688-1744)
@@
Beauty and folly are old companions.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
Beauty and sadness always go together.
Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth
Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

             George MacDonald (1824-1905)
@@
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

                  Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
@@
Beauty is all very well at first sight;
but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

                   G. B. Shaw (1856-1950)
@@
Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.

                Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
@@
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a
minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch
out over the whole of time.

                 Albert Camus (1913-1960)
@@
Trust not too much to an enchanting face.

                      Vergil (B.C. 70-19)
@@
Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all
thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor
please thee one year: and when thou hast it,
it will be to thee of no price at all.

               Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
@@
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.

               Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
@@
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see
a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares
may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in
the human soul.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes
can trace it 'midst familiar things, and through their lowly
guise.

               Felicia Hemans (1794-1835)
@@
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must
carry it with us or we find it not.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most
useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

                  John Ruskin (1819-1900)
@@
Walk on a rainbow trail;
walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty.
There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

                              Navajo Song
@@
When the candles are out all women are fair.

                   Plutarch (46-120 A.D.)
@@
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

          Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
@@
There's no use being young without being beautiful, and no
use being beautiful without being young.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray;
Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way:
Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on,
And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

                       Dryden (1631-1700)
@@
'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full
result of all.

                         Pope (1688-1744)
@@
Her air, her manners, all who saw admired;
Courteous though coy, and gentle though retired;
The joy of youth and health her eyes displayed,
And ease of heart her every look conveyed.

                George Crabbe (1754-1832)
@@
Not more the rose, the queen of flowers,
Out blushes all the bloom of bower,
Than she unrivall'd grace discloses;
The sweetest rose, where all are roses.

                 Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
@@
She walks in beauty like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and in her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

                        Byron (1788-1824)
@@
Loveliest of lovely things are they
On earth, that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

        William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
@@
She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be;
Her loveliness I never knew
Until she smiled on me:
Oh!  then I saw her eye was bright,
A well of love, a spring of light.

            Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849)
@@
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we
were looking through the gates of Heaven.

                      Lubbock (1834-1913)
@@
Everything changes, nothing
remains without change.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
@@
All things change, nothing perishes.

                   Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.)
@@
In all things there is a law of cycles.

                    Tacitus (55-117 A.D.)
@@
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful
law of nature.

                        Burke (1729-1797)
@@
We are negative in our relationships with that which is of a higher
potential than we are; and we are positive in our relationships
with that which has a lower potential.  This is a relationship
which is in a perpetual state of flux, and which
varies at every separate point at which we make our innumerable
contracts with our environment.

          Kabbalah (B.C. 1200?-700? A.D.)
@@
There is nothing permanent except change.

                Heraclitus (B.C. 535-475)
@@
The seen is the changing,
the unseen is the unchanging.

                   Plato (B.C. 427?-347?)
@@
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they
must also find an end.
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

                     Sallust (B.C. 86-34)
@@
The misery which follows pleasure
Is the pleasure which follows misery.
The pleasure and misery of mankind
Revolve like a wheel.

              Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.)
@@
The end of all motion is its beginning;
for it terminates at no other end save its own beginning from
which it begins to be moved and to which it tends ever to return,
in order to cease and rest in it.

  Joannes Scotus Erigena (815?-877? A.D.)
@@
Still ending, and beginning still.

                       Cowper (1731-1800)
@@
In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing
which goes is lost.

               Anne Swetchine (1782-1857)
@@
Change is inevitable...Change is constant.

                     Disraeli (1804-1881)
@@
The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured
as an outbreathing and inbreathing of "the Great Breath," which
is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects
of the Absolute - Abstract Space and Duration being the other two.

              H. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891)
@@
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of
the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.

          Kabbalah (B.C. 1200?-700? A.D.)
@@
The universe is moved by a power which cycles endlessly from day
to day.  Such greatness endures for all time.
As in heaven, so on earth.

                     I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
@@
As when rivers flowing towards the ocean find there final peace,
their name and form disappear, and people speak only of the ocean,
even so the different forms of the seer of all flows towards the
Spirit and find there final peace, their name and form disappear
and people speak only of Spirit.

                 Upanishads (c. B.C. 800)
@@
At the dawning of that day all objects in manifestation stream
forth from the Unmanifest, and when evening falls they are dissolved
into It again.
The same multitude of beings, which have lived on earth so often,
all are dissolved as the night of the universe approaches, to
issue forth anew when morning breaks.
Thus is it ordained.

              Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
@@
In human life there is constant change of fortune;
and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common
fate.
Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

                   Plutarch (46-120 A.D.)
@@
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough,
some of which go and others come.

                        Dante (1265-1321)
@@
It is not strange that even our loves should change with our fortunes.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the
taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
The world goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown
Can never come over again.

             Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
@@
All things must change to something new,to something strange.

                   Longfellow (1819-1892)
@@
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and
the same.  A man is never the same for long.
He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even
for half an hour.

                    Gurdjieff (1873-1949)
@@
To change and change for the better are two different things

                           German Proverb
@@
The way of the Creative works through change and trans-
formation, so that each thing receives its true nature
and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the
Great Harmony:  this is what furthers and what perseveres.

                     I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
@@
A rolling stone can gather no moss.

            Publilius Syrus (fl. B.C. 42)
@@
Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.

                  John Wilmot (1647-1680)
@@
To-day is not yesterday:  we ourselves change;
how can our Works and Thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest,
continue always the same?  Change, indeed is painful;
yet ever needful;  and if Memory have its force and worth,
so also has Hope.

                      Carlyle (1795-1881)
@@
The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man
ever dies, or can die;
but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works
through endless change.

                      Carlyle (1795-1881)
@@
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

            John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
@@
When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine:
the drop returneth whence it came.  The Open Path leads to the
changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness,
the Bliss past human thought.

              H. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891)
@@
The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided.
The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change,
adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current
facts.

           William O. Douglas (1898-1980)
@@
Keep what you have;
the known evil is best.

                   Plautus (B.C. 254-184)
@@
He despises what he sought;
and he seeks that which he lately threw away.

                       Horace (B.C. 65-8)
@@
Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but
believe not that man changes his nature.

                  Mohammed (570-632 A.D.)
@@
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order and
extinguish light.

                         Pope (1688-1744)
@@
What I possess I would gladly retain.
Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that
most love change.

                  John Ruskin (1819-1900)
@@
Humanity is moving in a circle.
In one century it destroys everything it creates in another,
and the progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years
has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps
were much more important for it.
                    Gurdjieff (1873-1949)
@@
Change is certain.  Peace is followed by disturbances;
departure of evil men by their return.
Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness
but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

                     I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
@@
Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that
is durable.

                  Menander (B.C. 342-291)
@@
No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing
his mind.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and
accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe
loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to
make new things like them.

           Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.)
@@
Perfection is immutable.
But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

                 Owen Feltham (1602-1668)
@@
Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless
state, it were cause indeed to weep.

        William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
@@
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

             Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872)
@@
To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and
wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with
the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature
and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon
light, he may accomplish wonders.  Ignorance of this law results
in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression
on the other.  Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he
should be their Master.

              H. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891)
@@
Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast
as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it
issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed
since it started.

          Kabbalah (B.C. 1200?-700? A.D.)
@@
So many great nobles, things, administrations,
So many high chieftains, so many brave nations,
So many proud princes, and power so splendid,
In a moment, a twinkling, all utterly ended.

                  Jacopone (c. 1230-1306)
@@
The ever-whirling wheele Of Change, to which all mortal things
doth sway.

               Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
@@
See dying vegetables life sustain,
See life dissolving vegetate again;
All forms that perish other forms supply;
By turns we catch the vital breath and die.

                         Pope (1688-1744)
@@
Ships, wealth, general confidence,-
All were his;
He counted them at break of day,
And when the sun set! where were they.

                        Byron (1788-1824)
@@
Life may change, but it may fly not;
Hope may vanish, but can die not;
Truth be veiled, but still it burneth;
Love repulsed, - but it returneth.

                      Shelley (1792-1822)
@@
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own;
and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is
but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark
their progress.

              Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
@@
But the nearer the dawn the darker the night,
And by going wrong all things come right;
Things have been mended that were worse,
And the worse, the nearer they are to mend.
                   Longfellow (1819-1892)
@@
That rivers flow into the sea
Is loss and waste, the foolish say,
Nor know that back they find their way
Unseen, to where they want to be.

                Arthur Clough (1819-1861)
@@
Time fleeth on, Youth soon is gone,
Naught earthly may abide; Life seemeth fast,
But may not last - It runs as runs the tide.

                       Leland (1824-1903)
@@
The old believe everything;
the middle-aged suspect everything;
the young know everything.

                  Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
@@
Character is destiny.

                Heraclitus (B.C. 535-475)
@@
Dignity does not consist in possessing
honors, but in deserving them.

                 Aristotle (B.C. 384-322)
@@
Character is simply habit long continued.

                   Plutarch (46-120 A.D.)
@@
Reputation is what men and women think of us;
character is what God and angels know of us.

                        Paine (1737-1809)
@@
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through
what you feel able to do.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
Character is a perfectly educated will.

                      Novalis (1772-1801)
@@
Character is that which can do without success.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Character - a reserved force which acts directly by presence,
and without means.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Character is not cut in marble;
it is not something solid and unalterable.
It is something living and changing...

                 George Eliot (1819-1880)
@@
Honour is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put
on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth
down at its separation from it.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
A man should endeavor to be as pliant as a reed,
yet as hard as cedar-wood.

         The Talmud (B.C. 500?-400? A.D.)
@@
To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has
the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

                 Aristotle (B.C. 384-322)
@@
An excellent man, like precious metal,
Is in every way invariable;
A villain, like the beams of a balance,
Is always varying, upwards and downwards.

               Saskya Pandita (1182-1251)
@@
He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day:
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
Himself his own dungeon.

                       Milton (1608-1674)
@@
Talent is nurtured in solitude;
character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and
gentle ones by permanence.

                      Richter (1763-1825)
@@
A mans' character is the reality of himself;
his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him;
character resides in him, reputation in other people;
that is the substance, this is the shadow.

                      Beecher (1813-1878)
@@
All men are alike in their lower natures;
it is in their higher characters that they differ.

                        Bovee (1820-1904)
@@
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them
and not deserve them.

                   Mark Twain (1835-1910)
@@
Man consists of two parts:  essence and personality.
Essence in man is what is his own.  Personality in man
is what is "not his own."  "Not his own" means what has
come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects,
all traces of exterior impressions left in the
memory and in the sensations, all words and movements that have
been learned, all feelings created by imitation.

                    Gurdjieff (1873-1949)
@@
Good character is like a rubber ball -
  Thrown down hard - it bounces right back.
Good reputation is like a crystal ball -
  Thrown for gain - shattered and cracked.

            A. L. Linall, Jr. (born 1947)
@@
Practice no vice because it's trivial...
Neglect no virtue because it's so.

                          Chinese Proverb
@@
As the shadow waiteth on the substance, even so true honour attendeth
upon goodness.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities
beneath a rough exterior.

                    Juvenal (40-125 A.D.)
@@
Not to be cheered by praise,
Not to be grieved by blame,
But to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers
Are the characteristics of an excellent man.

               Saskya Pandita (1182-1251)
@@
Every one is the son of his own works.

                    Cervantes (1547-1616)
@@
Life every man holds dear;
but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
True dignity is never gained by place,
and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

             Philip Massinger (1583-1640)
@@
The discipline of desire is the background of character.

                   John Locke (1632-1704)
@@
Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores;
we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside.

             Nicholas Boileau (1636-1711)
@@
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold
which the owner knows not of.

                        Swift (1667-1745)
@@
Be your character what it will, it will be known;
and nobody will take it upon your word.

                 Chesterfield (1694-1773)
@@
The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by
their professions.

                       Junius (1740-1818)
@@
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may
spell character.

                      Lavater (1741-1801)
@@
A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner
of portraying another's.

                      Richter (1763-1825)
@@
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor.

             Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834)
@@
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals
his character.

                 Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
@@
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he
knew he would never be found out.

                     Macaulay (1800-1859)
@@
Characters do not change. - Opinions alter, but characters
are only developed.

                     Disraeli (1804-1881)
@@
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it;
the tree is the real thing.

                      Lincoln (1809-1865)
@@
Reputation is only a...candle, of wavering and uncertain
flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which
the world looks for and finds merit.

                 James Lowell (1819-1891)
@@
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

                      Lubbock (1834-1913)
@@
Character is the result of two things:
Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

               Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915)
@@
If you create an act, you create a habit.
If you create a habit, you create a character.
If you create a character, you create a destiny.

                Andre Maurois (1885-1967)
@@
Good character is not formed in a week or a month.
It is created little by little, day by day.
Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

                    Sivananda (born 1887)
@@
Integrity has no need of rules.

                 Albert Camus (1913-1960)
@@
As a plain garment best adorneth a beautiful woman, so a decent
behaviour is the best ornament of inner wisdom.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
The best man in his dwelling loves the earth.
 In his heart, he loves what is profound.
 In his associations, he loves humanity.
 In his words, he loves faithfulness.
 In government, he loves order.
 In handling affairs, he loves competence.
 In his activities, he loves timeliness.
 It is because he does not compete that he is
   without reproach.

                   Lao-Tzu (fl. B.C. 600)
@@
To be fond of learning is near to wisdom;
to practice with vigor is near to benevolence;
and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude.
He who knows these three things
knows how to cultivate his own character.

                 Confucius (B.C. 551-479)
@@
What is honorable is also safest.

                   Livy (B.C. 59-17 A.D.)
@@
The highest of characters, in my estimation,
is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind,
as if he were every day guilty of some himself;
and at the same time as cautious of committing a fault
as if he never forgave one.

          Pliny the Younger (62-113 A.D.)
@@
The purest treasure mortal time afford
Is spotless reputation; that away,
Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is, in reality,
so much power.

               John Tillotson (1630-1694)
@@
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power;
but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will
always be in demand under all conditions.

                 Roger Babson (1875-1967)
@@
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

                          Chinese Proverb
@@
To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant
but utterly shameless.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

            Publilius Syrus (fl. B.C. 42)
@@
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks
of ignorance.

           Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)
@@
The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which
we affect to have.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
Honor is but an empty bubble.

                       Dryden (1631-1700)
@@
Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not
belong to them, are for the greater part ignorant of both the
character they leave and of the character they assume.

                        Burke (1729-1797)
@@
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

                H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
@@
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

                Manly P. Hall (born 1901)
@@
Be thou incapable of change in that which is right,
and men will rely upon thee.  Establish unto thyself
principles of action;  and see that thou ever act
according to them.  First know that thy principles are just,
and then be thou inflexible in the path of them.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
Be upright in thy whole life;
be content in all its changes;
so shalt thou make thy profit out of all occurrences;
so shall everything that happeneth unto thee be the source of
praise.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and
many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character
thereby.

                     I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
@@
The stages of the Noble Path are:
Right View, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Behavior, Right
Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
@@
Do not appease thy fellow in his hour of anger;
do not comfort him while the dead is still laid out before him;
do not question him in the hour of his vow;
and do not strive to see him in his hour of misfortune.

         The Talmud (B.C. 500?-400? A.D.)
@@
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire
to appear.

                  Socrates (B.C. 469-399)
@@
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire
what it forbids him to desire.  This is sufficient.
The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of
a stupid workman.

                   Mencius (B.C. 371-288)
@@
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended,
not what you said or thought.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.

             Pliny the Elder (23-79 A.D.)
@@
Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

                   Phaedrus (fl. 25 A.D.)
@@
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there
is no witness.

                  Ausonius (310-395 A.D.)
@@
When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when
he attains power, he spares his enemy.

                     'Ali (600-661 A. D.)
@@
Honour and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

                         Pope (1688-1744)
@@
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance
with him.

                      Lavater (1741-1801)
@@
Human improvement is from within outward.

                       Froude (1818-1894)
@@
By constant self-discipline and self-control
you can develop greatness of character.

            Grenville Kleiser (1868-1953)
@@
Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice.
Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness.
Admire - Frankness, Honesty and Large-heartedness.
Control - Tongue, Temper and Tossing of the mind.
Cultivate - Cosmic Love, Forgiveness and Patience.
Hate - Lust, Anger and Pride.

                    Sivananda (born 1887)
@@
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself.
He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for
it, makes it his own.

            Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970)
@@
If you stand straight
Do not fear a crooked shadow.

                          Chinese Proverb
@@
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also
a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and
holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons.
But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and
which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by
the waves, endures all the violence and threats of heaven and
sea, himself standing unmoved.

                      Vergil (B.C. 70-19)
@@
In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow,
Thou art such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow;
Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about thee,
That there's no living with thee, or without thee.

                    Martial (43-104 A.D.)
@@
O reputation! dearer far than life,
Thou precious balsam, lovely, sweet of smell,
Whose cordial drops once spilt by some rash hand,
Not all the owner's care, nor the repenting toil
Of the rude spiller, ever can collect
To its first purity and native sweetness.

               Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
@@
O, he sits high in all the people's hearts;
And that which would appear offence in us,
His countenance, like richest alchemy,
Will change to virtue and to worthiness.
                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild;
In Wit a man;  Simplicity, a child.

                         Pope (1688-1744)
@@
Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free;
Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms;
Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms.

                James Beattie (1735-1803)
@@
I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful,
to be faithful to all engagements and under all circumstances,
to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests
of both.

             Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
@@
The reason firm, the temperate will.
Endurance, foresight, strength and skill.

                   Wordsworth (1770-1850)
@@
The louder he talked of his honor the faster we counted our spoons.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear,
but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

                   Plutarch (46-120 A.D.)
@@
True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one
might be capable of doing before all the world.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in
seeing it, and conquering it.

                      Richter (1763-1825)
@@
Self-truth is the essence of heroism.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and
a mental willingness to endure it.

           William T. Sherman (1820-1891)
@@
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of
fear.

                   Mark Twain (1835-1910)
@@
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

             George S. Patton (1885-1945)
@@
The wicked flee when no one pursues,
but the righteous are bold as a lion.

               Proverbs (B.C. 1000?-200?)
@@
He who is brave in daring will be killed.
He who is brave in not daring will live.
Of these two, one is advantageous and one is harmful.
Who knows why Heaven dislikes what it dislikes?
Even the sage considers it a difficult question...

                   Lao-Tzu (fl. B.C. 600)
@@
There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt
of life.

            Cato the Elder (B.C. 234-149)
@@
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil;
nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
Courage leads to heaven;
fear, to death.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness,
one of which is a lack, the other an excess, of courage.

                   Plutarch (46-120 A.D.)
@@
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during
the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

                      Richter (1763-1825)
@@
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

                     Disraeli (1804-1881)
@@
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
In desperate straits the fears of the timid
aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

                        Bovee (1820-1904)
@@
The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet.
The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring
burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain.
The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone
can guide.

              H. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891)
@@
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of
his life in order to keep it.

             G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
@@
Say not that honour is the child of boldness,
nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone
can pay the price of it:
it is not to the action that it is due,
but to the manner of performing it.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers
his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

                 Aristotle (B.C. 384-322)
@@
A man of courage is also full of faith.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst,
than in the beginning of danger.

                Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
@@
Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

                     Greville (1554-1628)
@@
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.

                       Dryden (1631-1700)
@@
It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

        Jean Francois Regnard (1655-1709)
@@
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers;
the lion never counts the herd that are about him,
nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

                   Aaron Hill (1685-1750)
@@
One man with courage makes a majority.

               Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)
@@
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently,
but to live manfully.

                      Carlyle (1795-1881)
@@
All brave men love;
for he only is brave who has affections to fight for,
whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

          Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
@@
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

                      Homer (c. B.C. 700)
@@
Courage conquers all things:
it even gives strength to the body.

                   Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.)
@@
Fortune and love favor the brave.

                   Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.)
@@
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows
how to bear unhappiness with courage.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
True courage is cool and calm.
The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying
insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most
serene and free.

              Shaftesbury III (1671-1713)
@@
The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

                          Gay (1688-1732)
@@
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues,
for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate;
they too have this quality in common,
that they are expressed by the same color.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
Heroism - the divine relation which, in all times,
unites a great man to other men.

                      Carlyle (1795-1881)
@@
There is always safety in valor.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

               James L. Allen (1849-1925)
@@
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality
which guarantees all the others.

            Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
@@
To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.

                 Confucius (B.C. 551-479)
@@
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

                       Horace (B.C. 65-8)
@@
Take away ambitions and vanity, and where will be your heroes
and patriots?

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
Valor hath its bounds, as well as other virtues, which once transgressed,
the next step is into the territories of vice,so that, by having
too large a proportion of this heroic virtue...
may unawares run into temerity, obstinacy, and folly.

                    Montaigne (1533-1592)
@@
He who loses wealth loses much;
he who loses a friend loses more;
but he that loses his courage loses all.

                    Cervantes (1547-1616)
@@
Valor employed in an ill quarrel, turns to cowardice;
and virtue then puts on foul vice's vizor.

             Philip Massinger (1583-1640)
@@
Valor that parleys is near yielding.

                      Herbert (1593-1632)
@@
The more wit the less courage.

                Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
@@
No man is a hero to his valet.

                      Cornuel (1614-1694)
@@
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave:
He dreads a deathbed like the meanest slave.

                         Pope (1688-1744)
@@
Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue...
in which we are surpassed by the lower animals.

                 Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
@@
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.
Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom
themselves, either in imagination or practice.

                Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
@@
Never ask the gods for life set free from grief,
but ask for courage that endureth long.

                  Menander (B.C. 342-291)
@@
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
                   Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.)
@@
No one reaches a high position without daring.

            Publilius Syrus (fl. B.C. 42)
@@
The brave and bold persist even against fortune;
the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

                    Tacitus (55-117 A.D.)
@@
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

             Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658)
@@
Rest not! Life is sweeping by;
 go and dare before you die.
Something mighty and sublime,
 leave behind to conquer time.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is braver five minutes longer.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Nurture your minds with great thoughts,
to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

                     Disraeli (1804-1881)
@@
Write on your doors the saying wise and old.
"Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold;
Be not too bold!"  Yet better the excess
Than the defect; better the more than less...

                   Longfellow (1819-1892)
@@
As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the
waves disturbeth him not.
He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune
drop at his feet.
In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart sustaineth him;
and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
O friends, be men; so act that none may feel ashamed to
meet the eyes of other men.  Think each one of his children
and his wife, his home, his parents, living yet or dead.
For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, and bid you rally here,
and scorn to fly.

                      Homer (c. B.C. 700)
@@
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

                      Homer (c. B.C. 700)
@@
Valour, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in
battle and ability to rule - these constitute the duty of a soldier.
They flow from his own nature.

              Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
@@
Courage in danger is half the battle.

                   Plautus (B.C. 254-184)
@@
Go on and increase in valor, O boy!
this is the path to immortality.

                      Vergil (B.C. 70-19)
@@
That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip
of a lion.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
He either fears his fate too much,
  Or his deserts are small,
That dares not put it to the touch,
  To gain or lose it all.

                 James Graham (1612-1650)
@@
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

                        Swift (1667-1745)
@@
Tender handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.

                   Aaron Hill (1685-1750)
@@
A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often
made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night,
and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

                 Chesterfield (1694-1773)
@@
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages,
of a great enterprise; the hero sees both;
diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate,
and so conquers.

                      Lavater (1741-1801)
@@
No man is a hero to his valet.
This is not because the hero is no hero,
but because the valet is a valet.

                        Hegel (1770-1831)
@@
The hero is not fed on sweets,
Daily his own heart he eats;
Chambers of the great are jails,
And head-winds right for royal sails.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,
  never doubted clouds would break,
Never dreamed, though right were worsted,
  wrong would triumph,
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,
  sleep to wake.

              Robert Browning (1812-1889)
@@
In the world's broad field of battle,
  In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
  Be a hero in the strife.

                   Longfellow (1819-1892)
@@
Stand upright, speak thy thoughts,
declare The truth thou hast,
that all may share;
Be bold, proclaim it everywhere:
They only live who dare.

                 Lewis Morris (1835-1907)
@@
A man not perfect, but of heart
  So high, of such heroic rage,
That even his hopes became a part
  Of earth's eternal heritage.

               Richard Gilder (1844-1909)
@@
Out of the night that covers me,
  Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
  For my unconquerable soul.

               William Henley (1849-1903)
@@
Envy is the adversary of the fortunate.

                  Epictetus (50-138 A.D.)
@@
From covetousness anger proceeds;
from covetousness lust is born;
from covetousness come delusion and perdition.
Covetousness is the cause of sin.

         The Hitopadesa (600?-1100? A.D.)
@@
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority;
envy our uneasiness under it.

            William Shenstone (1714-1763)
@@
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money,
but greedy of honor and feeding on selfishness.

                     Chamfort (1741-1794)
@@
Jealousy - magnifier of trifles.

                     Schiller (1759-1805)
@@
Envy is littleness of soul.

                      Hazlitt (1778-1830)
@@
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live.
It is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

                  Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
@@
The things which belong to others please us more, and that which
is ours, is more pleasing to others.

            Publilius Syrus (fl. B.C. 42)
@@
The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their
wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their
wealth.

             Pliny the Elder (23-79 A.D.)
@@
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

                   Phaedrus (fl. 25 A.D.)
@@
In plain truth, it is not want, but rather abundance,
that creates avarice.

                    Montaigne (1533-1592)
@@
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of
those we envy.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's
alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the
last which dies.

                 Robert South (1634-1716)
@@
Envy will merit, as its shade pursue,
but like a shadow, proves the substance true.

                         Pope (1688-1744)
@@
Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the heart of man;
for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they
are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and
exalted that they are above it.

                       Colton (1780-1832)
@@
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for
refusing themselves nothing.

                   Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
@@
Selfishness is the only real atheism;
aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

              Israel Zangwill (1864-1926)
@@
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is no greater disaster than greed.
He who is contented with contentment is always contented.

                   Lao-Tzu (fl. B.C. 600)
@@
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense.
All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
@@
Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its
roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of
craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again.

             The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 300)
@@
Envy, like flame, soars upwards.

                   Livy (B.C. 59-17 A.D.)
@@
Envy assails the noblest:
the winds howl around the highest peaks.

                   Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.)
@@
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

             Pliny the Elder (23-79 A.D.)
@@
Lust of power is the most flagrant of all passions.

                    Tacitus (55-117 A.D.)
@@
He that is jealous is not in love.

                 Augustine (354-430 A.D.)
@@
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self;
and where there is no comparison, no envy.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

          Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
@@
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit;
like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in
the flock.

             Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)
@@
In jealousy there is more self-love than love.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely
as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

               Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
@@
The envious will die, but envy never.

                      Moliere (1622-1673)
@@
The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them,
but to have them.

               John Tillotson (1630-1694)
@@
Nature is content with little; grace with less;
but lust with nothing.

                Matthew Henry (1662-1714)
@@
If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that
they possess, there would not be much to envy in the world.

                        Young (1683-1765)
@@
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which
the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second
devoted to ambition.

                      Johnson (1709-1784)
@@
A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for
neglecting the neighbor's.

              Richard Whately (1787-1863)
@@
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

                William James (1842-1910)
@@
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.

                   Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
@@
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure,
he has yet one jewel left;
you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

                       Milton (1608-1674)
@@
Jealousy is, in some sort, rational and just;
it aims at the preservation of a good which belongs,
or which we think belongs, to us;
whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot endure,
even in idea, the good of others.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
Misers are very kind people:
they amass wealth for those who wish their death.

       Leszczynski Stanislaus (1677-1766)
@@
Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, for envy is a kind of praise.

                          Gay (1688-1732)
@@
Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the
learned or brave.

                         Pope (1688-1744)
@@
Avarice, the spur of industry.

                   David Hume (1711-1776)
@@
Envy, among other ingredients,
has a mixture of the love of justice in it.
We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.

                      Hazlitt (1778-1830)
@@
It is astonishing how well men wear when they think of no one but
themselves.

                Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
@@
Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization
from the first dawn to the present day...

             Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
@@
Selfishness is the dynamo of our economic system...
which may range from mere petty greed to admirable
types of self-expression.

            Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965)
@@
An immoderate desire of riches is a poison lodged in the mind.
It contaminates and destroys everything that was good in it.
It is no sooner rooted there, than all virtue, all honesty, all
natural affection, fly before the face of it.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
The heart of the envious is gall and bitterness;
his tongue spitteth venom;
the success of his neighbour breaketh his rest.
He sitteth in his cell repining;
and the good that happeneth to another,
is to him an evil.
Hatred and malice feed upon his heart, 
and there is no rest in him.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
Can a man carry fire in his bosom
  and his clothes not be burned?
Or can one walk upon hot coals
  and his feet not be scorched?
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife;
 none who touches her will go unpunished.

               Proverbs (B.C. 1000?-200?)
@@
An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors.
Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge,
the beginner of secret sedition, and the perpetual tormentor
of virtue.  Envy is the filthy slime of the soul;
a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh,
and drieth up the marrow of the bones.

                  Socrates (B.C. 469-399)
@@
As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.

               Antisthenes (fl. B.C. 444)
@@
Those who are envious and mischievous, who are the lowest among
men, are cast by Me into the ocean of material existence, into
various demoniac species of life.

              Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
@@
The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert
which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields
no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.

                     Zeno (B.C. 335?-264)
@@
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's
wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment,
and lastly, hell.

             The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 300)
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Avarice, in old age, is foolish;
for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for
the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end?

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

                       Horace (B.C. 65-8)
@@
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.

                       Horace (B.C. 65-8)
@@
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

            Publilius Syrus (fl. B.C. 42)
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person,
a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience,
a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses,
and, finally, a mortal bane to all the body.

             Pliny the Elder (23-79 A.D.)
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Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them;
for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

                    Juvenal (40-125 A.D.)
@@
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether
it be good or bad.

                    Tacitus (55-117 A.D.)
@@
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

                Chrysostom (347-407 A.D.)
@@
Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.
              Claudianus (365?-408? A.D.)
@@
Though an avaricious man possesses wealth,
An envious man possesses another's goods,
And an ill-minded man possesses his learning-
None of these can produce lasting pleasure.

               Saskya Pandita (1182-1251)
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Envy is like a fly that passes all a body's sounder parts, and dwells
upon the sores.

               George Chapman (1557-1634)
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Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit
of an excuse:  envy alone wants both.

                Robert Burton (1576-1640)
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
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Avarice is insatiable and is always pushing on for more.

                   L'Estrange (1616-1704)
@@
Covetousness, by a greediness of getting more,
deprives itself of the true end of getting;
it loses the enjoyment of what it had got.

                 Thomas Sprat (1635-1713)
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Avarice is always poor, but poor by her own fault.

                      Johnson (1709-1784)
@@
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from
whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

                      Beecher (1813-1878)
@@
Covetousness has for its mother unlawful desire, for its daughter
injustice, and for its friend violence.

                          Arabian Proverb
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Attribute not the good actions of another to bad causes:
thou canst not know his heart;
but the world will know by this that thine is full of envy.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet
thy neighbor's wife, nor is manservant, nor his maidservant,
nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.

                      Exodus (B.C. 1200?)
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Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not
deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless
to thee.

               Zoroaster (B.C. 628?-551?)
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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
@@
The demon of worldly desires is always seeking chances to deceive
the mind.  If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have
a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
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Refrain from covetousness, and thy estate shall prosper.

                   Plato (B.C. 427?-347?)
@@
As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror is covered by dust,or
as an embryo is covered by the womb, similarly the living entity
is covered by different degrees of lust which veils real knowledge
and is never satisfied.
Therefore regulate the senses in the beginning and slay this
destroyer of knowledge and self-realization.

              Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
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If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxury.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
Expel avarice, the mother of all wickedness, who, always thirsty
for more, opens wide her jaws for gold.

              Claudianus (365?-408? A.D.)
@@
An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting
lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

                        Saadi (1184-1291)
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The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.

                    John Lyly (1554-1606)
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Envy not greatness:  for thou makest thereby
Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

                      Herbert (1593-1632)
@@
All jealousy must be strangled in its birth, or time will soon
make it strong enough to overcome the truth.

             William Davenant (1605-1668)
@@
Do not believe that lust can ever be killed out if gratified or
satiated, for this is an abomination inspired by illusion.
It is by feeding vice that it expands and waxes strong, like to
the worm that fattens on the blossom's heart.

              H. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891)
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Selfishness is the greatest sin.
It constrains the heart.
It separates man from man.
It makes him greedy.
It is the root of all evils and sufferings.
Destroy selfishness through selfless service,
charity, generosity and love.

                    Sivananda (born 1887)
@@
He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly
in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven
that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
Surely, those who swallow the property of the orphans unjustly,
swallow nothing but fire into their bellies, and they shall
soon enter into the flaming fire.

                      Koran (c. 651 A.D.)
@@
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she:
Be not her maid, since she is envious.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill;
Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still.

                    Goldsmith (1728-1774)
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O, Jealousy, thou ugliest fiend of hell!
thy deadly venom preys on my vitals,
turns the healthful hue of my fresh cheek
to haggard sallowness, and drinks my spirit up.

                  Hannah More (1745-1833)
@@
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonoured and unsung.

                 Walter Scott (1771-1832)
@@
Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism;
and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character
of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness
of the child.

                      Hazlitt (1778-1830)
@@
Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it,
For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

                        Byron (1788-1824)
@@
     ...The last vibration of the seventh eternity thrills through infinitude.
The mother swells, expanding from within without, like the bud of the lotus.
     The vibration sweeps along, touching with its swift wing the
whole universe and the germ that dwelleth in darkness:
the darkness that breathes over the slumbering waters of life...
     Darkness radiates light, and light drops one solitary ray into
the mother-deep.  The ray shoots through the virgin egg.
The ray causes the eternal egg to thrill, and drop the non-eternal germ,
which condenses into the world-egg...

               Book of Dzyan (B.C. 3000?)
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These are the ten spheres of existence out of nothing.
From the spirit of the living God emanated air, from the air, water,
from the water, fire or ether, from the ether, the height and
the depth, the East and West, the North and South.

     Sepher Yezirah (B.C. 2000?-600 A.D.)
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In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void;
and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God
moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.

                     Genesis (B.C. 1200?)
@@
This is the truth:  As from a fire aflame thousands of
sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity
of beings have life and to him return again.

                 Upanishads (c. B.C. 800)
@@
As a spider emits and draws in its thread, As plants arise on the
earth, As the hairs of the head and body from a living person,
So from The Eternal arises everything here.

                 Upanishads (c. B.C. 800)
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Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden
in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point;
that was His own thought. With this thought He then began
to construct a mysterious and holy form... the Universe.

                  Zohar (120?-1200? A.D.)
@@
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is
the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

                        Young (1683-1765)
@@
Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God.

                       Cowper (1731-1800)
@@
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals him to the wise,
and hides him from the foolish.

                      Carlyle (1795-1881)
@@
What is art?  Nature concentrated.

                       Balzac (1799-1850)
@@
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
For Art is Nature made by man
To Man the interpreter of God.

                Owen Meredith (1831-1891)
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Father-Mother spin a web whose upper end is fastened to spirit
- the light of the one darkness - and the lower one to its shadowy
end, matter;  and this web is the universe spun out of the
two substances made in one...

               Book of Dzyan (B.C. 3000?)
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The decade of existence out of nothing has its end linked to its
beginning and its beginning linked to its end, just as the flame
is wedded to the live coal;  because the Lord is one and there
is not a second one, and before one what wilt thou count? 

     Sepher Yezirah (B.C. 2000?-600 A.D.)
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In wisdom and understanding we have the archetypal Positive
and Negative, the primordial Maleness and Femaleness,
established while "countenance beheld not countenance" 
and manifestation was incipient.  It is from these primary 
Pairs of Opposites that the Pillars of the Universe spring,
between which is woven the web of Manifestation.

          Kabbalah (B.C. 1200?-700? A.D.)
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The Creative knows the great beginnings.
The Receptive completes the finished things.

                     I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
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     The Creative, in a state of rest, is one, 
and in a state of motion it is straight;
therefore it creates that which is great.
     The Receptive is closed in a state of rest,
and in a state of motion it opens;
therefore it creates that which is vast.

                     I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
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The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth;
The Named is the mother of all things.
Therefore let there always be non-being
  so we may see their subtlety,
And let there always be being so we may see their outcome.
The two are the same,
But after they are produced, they have different names.
They both may be called deep and profound.
Deeper and more profound,
The door of all subtleties!

                   Lao-Tzu (fl. B.C. 600)
@@
There are two aspects in Nature:  the perishable and the imperishable.
All life in this world belongs to the former,the unchanging element
belongs to the latter.

              Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
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Emanation is the Resulting displayed from the Unresulting,
the Finite from the Infinite, the Manifold and Composite from
the Perfect Single and Simple, Potentiality from that which
is Infinite Power and Act, the mobile from that which is perennially
permanent;  and therefore in a more imperfect and diminished mode
than His Infinite Perfection is.

                  Zohar (120?-1200? A.D.)
@@
Surely God causes the seed and the stone to sprout;
He brings forth the living from the dead,
and He is the bringer forth of the dead from the living.

                      Koran (c. 651 A.D.)
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The point appeared in the circle, yet wasn't.
Rather, it was the circle, traversed by the point.
To one who has completed the circle,
  the point exists on the circumference.
The whole world I said is His imagination,
  then I saw:  His imagination is Himself.

            Ni'matullah Wali (1331-1431?)
@@
In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in
their place.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

                       Dryden (1631-1700)
@@
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and
antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle
of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

                  Albert Pike (1809-1891)
@@
The soil, in return for her service, keeps the tree tied to her;
the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

          Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
@@
Art is the stored honey of the human soul,
gathered on wings of misery and travail.

             Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
@@
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

                Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
@@
     ...The eternal vital power builds them in the likeness
of older worlds, placing them on the Imperishable Centres.
     How does he build them?  He collects the fiery dust.
He makes balls of fire, runs through them, and round them,
infusing life there into, then sets them into motion;
some one way, some the other way. They are cold,
he makes them hot. They are dry, he makes them moist.
They shine, he fans and cools them. Thus he acts from one
twilight to the other, during Seven Eternities.

               Book of Dzyan (B.C. 3000?)
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The appearance of the ten spheres out of manifestation is like
a flash of lightning, being without an end, His word is in them,
when they go and return; they run by His order like a whirlwind
and humble themselves before His throne.

     Sepher Yezirah (B.C. 2000?-600 A.D.)
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Polarity is the principle that runs through the whole of creation,
and is, in fact, the basis of manifestation.
Polarity really means the flowing of force from a sphere of high
pressure to a sphere of low pressure;  high and low being always
relative terms.  Every sphere of energy needs to receive the
stimulus of an influx of energy at higher pressure, and to have
an output into a sphere of lower pressure.
The source of all energy is the Great Unmanifest,and it makes
its own way down the levels, changing its form from one to the
other, till it is finally "earthed" in matter.

          Kabbalah (B.C. 1200?-700? A.D.)
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The pure impulse of dynamic creation is formless;
and being formless, the creation it gives rise to can assume any
and every form.

          Kabbalah (B.C. 1200?-700? A.D.)
@@
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings
owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

                     I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
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The cosmos comes forth from The Eternal, and moves In Him.
With His power it reverberates,
Like thunder crashing in the sky.
Those who Realize Him pass beyond the sway of death.

                 Upanishads (c. B.C. 800)
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The spirit of the valley never dies.
  It is called the subtle and profound female.
The gate of the subtle and profound female
  Is the root of Heaven and Earth.
It is continuous, and seems to be always existing.
Use it and you will never wear it out.

                   Lao-Tzu (fl. B.C. 600)
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The Eternal generates the One.
The One generates the Two.
The Two generates the Three.
The Three generates all things.
All things have darkness at their back
and strive towards the light,
and the flowing power gives them harmony.

                   Lao-Tzu (fl. B.C. 600)
@@
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

               Simonides (B.C. 556?-468?)
@@
A picture is a poem without words.

                 Confucius (B.C. 551-479)
@@
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things,
but their inward significance.

                 Aristotle (B.C. 384-322)
@@
Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.

             Pliny the Elder (23-79 A.D.)
@@
The perfection of art is to conceal art.

                  Quintilian (35-90 A.D.)
@@
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.

                    Juvenal (40-125 A.D.)
@@
God has made all things out of nothing:  because...
even though the world has been made of some material,
that very same material has been made out of nothing.

                 Augustine (354-430 A.D.)
@@
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature,
as a pupil imitates his master;
thus your art must be,
as it were, God's grandchild.

                        Dante (1265-1321)
@@
Nature never breaks her own laws.

            Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
@@
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

                 Michelangelo (1474-1564)
@@
When one is painting one does not think.

               Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520)
@@
We call that against nature which cometh against custom.
But there is nothing, whatsoever it be, that is not according
to nature.

                    Montaigne (1533-1592)
@@
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature,they
being both servants of his providence:
art is the perfection of nature; were the world now as it was the
sixth day, there were yet a chaos;
nature hath made one world, and art another.
In brief, all things are artificial;
for nature is the art of God.

                Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
@@
Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground
brings forth fruit;  a principle thrown into a good mind
brings forth fruit.  Everything is created and conducted
by the same Master:  the root, the branch, the fruits - 
the principles, the consequences.

                       Pascal (1623-1662)
@@
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the
illusion of a higher reality.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts.
- Illusion on a ground of truth, that is the secret of the fine arts.

                      Joubert (1754-1824)
@@
The ideal should never touch the real;
When nature conquers, Art must then give way.

                     Schiller (1759-1805)
@@
Light is the first of painters.
There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests
to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within
the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of
which nature, like himself, is but the effect.

                Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
@@
     ...a first cause, eternal, all-wise, almighty and holy,
is the origin and the centre of the whole universe,
from whom gradually all beings emanated.  Thought, speech
and action are an inseparable unity in the divine being.

               Isidor Kalisch (1810-1886)
@@
The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and
then fix it in form.

            Francois Delsarte (1811-1871)
@@
Art is a man's nature;  nature is God's art.

                       Bailey (1816-1902)
@@
All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.

                 Walter Pater (1839-1894)
@@
Art is not a thing;  it is a way.

               Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915)
@@
A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

                   Emile Zola (1840-1902)
@@
The process of creation never stops, although, on a planetary
scale, growth proceeds so slowly that if we reckon it in our time
planetary conditions can be regarded as permanent for us.

                    Gurdjieff (1873-1949)
@@
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment
the shining, elusive element which is life itself.

                 Willa Cather (1876-1947)
@@
Art does not reproduce the visible;
rather it makes it visible.

                    Paul Klee (1879-1940)
@@
THE CREATIVE works sublime success,
Furthering through perseverance.

                     I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
@@
Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that
overawes our little anxieties and doubts:
the sight of the deep-blue sky, and the clustering stars above,
seem to impart a quiet in the mind.

             Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
@@
Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is
really according to order.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
Art is the right hand of Nature.
The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

                     Schiller (1759-1805)
@@
Art is more godlike than science.
Science discovers; art creates.

                    John Opie (1761-1807)
@@
Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it is nature.
We recognize in it an Infinite Power.

        Karl Wilhelm Humboldt (1767-1835)
@@
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

                   Wordsworth (1770-1850)
@@
For what has made the sage or poet write
But the fair paradise of Nature's light.

                        Keats (1795-1821)
@@
Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams
and cherishes our fancies.

                  Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
@@
Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
She shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission
to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

                  Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
@@
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in
human happiness.  It trains the mind through the eye, and the
eye through the mind.  As the sun colors flowers, so does art
color life.

                      Lubbock (1834-1913)
@@
Art comes to you posing frankly to give nothing but the highest
quality to your moments as they pass.

                 Walter Pater (1839-1894)
@@
Art is the great stimulus to life.

                    Nietzsche (1844-1900)
@@
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

             Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936)
@@
All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

                 Aristotle (B.C. 384-322)
@@
Nature abhors annihilation.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
Nature too unkind;
That made no medicine for a troubled mind!

          Beaumont and Fletcher (c. 1600)
@@
Ah!  would that we could at once paint with the eyes!
In the long way, from the eye, through the arm to the pencil,
how much is lost!

             Gotthold Lessing (1729-1781)
@@
Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

                     Schiller (1759-1805)
@@
Nature, red in tooth and claw.

              Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
@@
Nature has no principles.
She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is
to be respected.
Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good
and evil.

               Anatole France (1844-1924)
@@
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

                   G. B. Shaw (1856-1950)
@@
There is nothing but art.
Art is living. To attempt to give an object of art life by dwelling
on its historical, cultural, or archaeological association
is senseless.

             Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
@@
In order for a creation to be possible there must first be a contraction,
a concentration of all energies at a center.
Then, an expansion must occur;  the gathered energies must be sent forth
in concentrated form as a ray or beam of energy.

          Kabbalah (B.C. 1200?-700? A.D.)
@@
Let us permit nature to have her way;
she understands her business better than we do.

                    Montaigne (1533-1592)
@@
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
And hark!  how blithe the thristle sings!
     He, too, is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the light of things,
     Let Nature be your teacher.

                   Wordsworth (1770-1850)
@@
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own
line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed;
be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

                 Sydney Smith (1771-1845)
@@
Help Nature and work on with her;
and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators and make obeisance.
And she will open wide before thee the portals of her secret chambers,
lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of
her pure virgin bosom.

              H. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891)
@@
Before the visible universe was formed its mold was cast.
This mold was called the Archetype, and the Archetype was in the
Supreme Mind long before the process of creation began.
Beholding the Archetypes, the Supreme Mind become enamored
with Its own thought; so, taking the Word as a mighty hammer,
It gouged out caverns in primordial space and cast the form of
the spheres in the Archetypical mold, at the same time sowing
in the newly fashioned bodies the seeds of living things.
The darkness below, receiving the hammer of the Word, was fashioned
into an orderly universe.

   The Divine Pymander (BC 2500?-200 AD?)
@@
Ten are the numbers out of nothing, and not the number nine,ten
and not eleven.  Comprehend this great wisdom, under-
stand this knowledge, inquire into it and ponder on it,
render it evident and lead the Creator back to His throne again.

     Sepher Yezirah (B.C. 2000?-600 A.D.)
@@
Casteth he his eye towards the clouds, findeth he not the heavens
full of his wonders? looketh he down to the earth,
doth not the worm proclaim "Less than omnipotence could
not have formed me!"

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
In the beginning the Golden Embryo arose.
Once he was born, he was the one lord of creation.
He held in place the earthand this sky.
He who gives life, who gives strength,
whose command all the gods, his own, obey;
his shadow is immortality - and death.

                Rig Veda (B.C. 1200-900?)
@@
The Receptive is all-potential, but inert.
The Creative is pure energy, limitless and tireless,
but incapable of doing anything except radiate off
into space if left to its own devices.
But when the Creative acts upon the Receptive, its
energy is gathered up and set to work.  When the Receptive
receives the impulse of the Creative, all her latent
capacities are energised.

          Kabbalah (B.C. 1200?-700? A.D.)
@@
From the ONE LIFE formless and Uncreate, proceeds the Universe
of lives.  First was manifested from the Deep (Chaos) cold
luminous fire (gaseous light?) which formed the curds in Space.
(Irresolvable nebulae, perhaps?) ...  These fought, and a great
heat was developed by the encountering and collision, which
produced rotation.  Then came the first manifested MATERIAL...

    Book of Dzyan Commentary (B.C. 1000?)
@@
All beings return at the close of every cosmic cycle into the
realm of Nature, which is a part of Me, and at the beginning of
the next I send them forth again.
With the help of Nature, again and again I pour forth the whole
multitude of beings, whether they will or no, for they are ruled
by My Will.

              Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
@@
In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant,
it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and
see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

                       Milton (1608-1674)
@@
Man's rich with little, were his judgement true;
Nature is frugal, and her wants are few;
These few wants answer'd bring sincere delights;
But fools create themselves new appetites.

                        Young (1683-1765)
@@
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road,
But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

                         Pope (1688-1744)
@@
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.

                       Landor (1775-1864)
@@
'Tis to create, and in creating live
A being more intense, that we endow
With form our fancy, gaining as we give
The life we image.

                        Byron (1788-1824)
@@
The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at
midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation
of light and of the world.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
The counterfeit and counterpart
Of Nature reproduced in art.

                   Longfellow (1819-1892)
@@
Art is the child of Nature;  yes,
her darling child in whom we trace
The features of the mother's face,
Her aspect and her attitude.

                   Longfellow (1819-1892)
@@
Once, when the days were ages,
     And the old Earth was young,
The high gods and the sages
From Nature's golden pages
     Her open secrets wrung.

             Richard Stoddard (1825-1903)
@@
We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
Cunning...is but the low mimic of wisdom.

                  Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
@@
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects,
and discovering other people's weaknesses.

                      Hazlitt (1778-1830)
@@
Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

                        Bovee (1820-1904)
@@
Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.

                   Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.)
@@
In the mind of the wicked there is one thing;
in their discourse another; their conduct is another.
In the heart, in the speech, and in the conduct of the magnanimous
there is one and the same thing.

         The Hitopadesa (600?-1100? A.D.)
@@
Treason doth never prosper:  what's the reason?
Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

              John Harrington (1561-1612)
@@
It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it
is difficult to deceive others without their finding it out.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
Cunning to wisdom is as an ape to man.

                 William Penn (1614-1718)
@@
Half the truth is often a great lie.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
Falsehood is susceptible of an infinity of combinations, but
truth has only one mode of being.

                     Rousseau (1712-1778)
@@
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends
with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

            William Shenstone (1714-1763)
@@
We are never deceived;  we deceive ourselves.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

                William Blake (1757-1828)
@@
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination.
Truth invites it.

                Thomas Cooper (1759-1839)
@@
Falsehood is cowardice, - truth is courage.

                 Hosea Ballou (1771-1852)
@@
And, after all, what is a lie?
'Tis but The truth in masquerade.

                        Byron (1788-1824)
@@
White lies are but the ushers to black ones.

            Frederick Marryat (1792-1848)
@@
His honour rooted in dishonour stood,
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

              Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
@@
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

       Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895)
@@
Truth is the safest lie.

                           Jewish Proverb
@@
Thy secret is thy prisoner if thou keepest it;
thou art its prisoner if thou divulgest it.

                          Chinese Proverb
@@
If the Great Way perishes
     there will morality and duty.
When cleverness and knowledge arise
     great lies will flourish.
When relatives fall out with one another
     there will be filial duty and love.
When states are in confusion
     there will be faithful servants.

                   Lao-Tzu (fl. B.C. 600)
@@
A lie never lives to be old.

                 Sophocles (B.C. 495-406)
@@
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather
than wisdom.

                   Plato (B.C. 427?-347?)
@@
No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
Treachery, though at first very cautious,
in the end betrays itself.

                   Livy (B.C. 59-17 A.D.)
@@
You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you
wish to tell.

            Publilius Syrus (fl. B.C. 42)
@@
One crime is concealed by the commission of another.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
For whoever contemplates a crime is guilty of the deed.

                    Juvenal (40-125 A.D.)
@@
If one is plotting evil,
He always uses pleasant words.
When a hunter sees the game,
He sings a sweet song to lure it.

              Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.)
@@
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to
be deceived.

                  Machiavelli (1469-1527)
@@
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

                     Greville (1554-1628)
@@
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
The fox puts off all with a jest.

                   L'Estrange (1616-1704)
@@
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but
a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words
into things.

                 Robert South (1634-1716)
@@
Cunning leads to knavery.
- It is but a step from one to the other, 
  and that very slippery.
- Only lying makes the difference;
  add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

                   La Bruyere (1645-1696)
@@
Cunning has effect from the credulity of others.
It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

                      Johnson (1709-1784)
@@
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with
truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not
wholly wrong, as no timepieces so effectually deceive the wearer
as those that are sometimes right.

                       Colton (1780-1832)
@@
Treason is like diamonds;
there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

              Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857)
@@
There is no lie that many men will not believe;
there is no man who does not believe many lies;
and there is no man who believes only lies.

                John Sterling (1806-1844)
@@
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

        Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
@@
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

               Josiah Holland (1819-1881)
@@
The very cunning conceal their cunning;
the indifferently shrew boast of it.

                        Bovee (1820-1904)
@@
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting
on its shoes.

                   Mark Twain (1835-1910)
@@
Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.

                      Homer (c. B.C. 700)
@@
Shame is an ornament to the young;
a disgrace to the old.

                 Aristotle (B.C. 384-322)
@@
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
A goodly apple rotten at the heart;
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense
to know how to lie well.

                Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
@@
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always
in our power to re-establish our character.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

                  La Fontaine (1621-1695)
@@
If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt;
if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry;
if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius.

                       Landor (1775-1864)
@@
Cunning is the natural and universal defense of the weak against
the violence of the strong.

                     Macaulay (1800-1859)
@@
Foxes are so cunning
Because they are not strong.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

                        Bovee (1820-1904)
@@
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the
longest way.

                Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
@@
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

                         Saki (1870-1916)
@@
Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

                 Bergen Evans (born 1904)
@@
The heart of the hypocrite is hid in his breast;
he masketh his words in the semblance of truth,
while the business of his life is only to deceive.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
For he who speaks untruth withers like a tree to the roots.

                 Upanishads (c. B.C. 800)
@@
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell,
Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart,
Utters another.

                      Homer (c. B.C. 700)
@@
If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously
commit every possible wrong deed.
Before they can act wickedly they must lie, and once they begin
to lie they will act wickedly with unconcern.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
@@
For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death.

              Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
@@
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

                   Plautus (B.C. 254-184)
@@
Lying is a most disgraceful vice;
it first despises God, and then fears men.

                   Plutarch (46-120 A.D.)
@@
To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a sabre;
for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

                        Saadi (1184-1291)
@@
The gain of lying is, not to be trusted by any, nor to be believed
when we speak the truth.

               Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
@@
Though those who are betrayed do feel the treason sharply, yet
the traitor stands in worse case of woe.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
Where trust is greatest, there treason is in its most horrid shape.

                       Dryden (1631-1700)
@@
He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes;
for he must invent twenty more to maintain that one.

                         Pope (1688-1744)
@@
Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have
not wits enough to be honest.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society.
They trifle with the best parts of our nature, and violate the
most sacred obligations.

                George Crabbe (1754-1832)
@@
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact
that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

                 Hosea Ballou (1771-1852)
@@
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

                       Bailey (1816-1902)
@@
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed,
but that he cannot believe anyone else.

                   G. B. Shaw (1856-1950)
@@
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not
to trust himself on the narrow edge.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
Who is not sure of his memory should not attempt lying.

                    Montaigne (1533-1592)
@@
We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage, always have
it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.

                     Greville (1554-1628)
@@
Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning.
Be intent on his intentions.  Many succeed in making others
do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives
you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the
fire to the damage of your own fingers.

             Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658)
@@
Trust not in him that seems a saint.

                Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
@@
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it
ourselves.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance
and without any visible reason.

                 Chesterfield (1694-1773)
@@
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming
him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the
truth.

                      Johnson (1709-1784)
@@
Do not talk about disgrace from a thing being known, when disgrace
is, that the thing should exist.

             William Falconer (1732-1769)
@@
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men
not looking you in the face.  Don't trust that conventional idea.
Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the
week, if there is anything to be got by it.

              Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
@@
O fool, fool! the pains which thou takest to hide what thou art,
are far more than would make thee what thou wouldst seem;
and the children of wisdom shall mock at thy cunning when,
in the midst of security, thy disguise is stripped off,
and the finger of derision shall point thee to scorn.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
In deepest consequence.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
We trust our secrets to our friends,
but they escape from us in love.

                   La Bruyere (1645-1696)
@@
Is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,
Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man
Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?

                      Addison (1672-1719)
@@
It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger
till his ruin is at hand.

                   Metastasio (1698-1782)
@@
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion,
Instead of Truth they use Equivocation,
And eke it out with mental Reservation,
Which is to good Men an Abomination.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
Round numbers are always false.

                      Johnson (1709-1784)
@@
A great lie is like a great fish on dry land;
it may fret and fling, and make a frightful bother,
but it cannot hurt you.
You have only to keep still and it will die of itself.

                George Crabbe (1754-1832)
@@
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

                 Walter Scott (1771-1832)
@@
Oh, colder than the wind that freezes
     Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd,
Is that congealing pang which seizes
     The trusting bosom, when betray'd.

                 Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
@@
Mary, I believed thee true,
     And I was blest in thus believing;
But now I mourn that ever I knew
     A girl so fair and so deceiving.

                 Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
@@
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths,
but usually quarrel among themselves.

               Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
@@
You can fool some of the people all of the time,
and all of the people some of the time,
but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.

                     Lincoln? (1809-1865)
@@
A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

                      Beecher (1813-1878)
@@
Spies are of no use nowadays.  Their profession is over.
The newspapers do their work instead.

                  Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
@@
We (Communist Party) must be ready to employ trickery, deceit,
law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth.
We can and must write in the language which sows among the masses
hate, revulsion, scorn, and the like, toward those who disagree
with us.

                Nikolai Lenin (1870-1924)
@@
Every man is his own chief enemy.

                Anacharsis (fl. B.C. 600)
@@
Our enemies are our outward consciences.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
As soon as there is life there is danger.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
The space in a needle's eye is sufficient for two friends,
but the whole world is scarcely big enough to hold two enemies.

         Solomon Ibn Gabirol (1021?-1053)
@@
Perils commonly ask to be paid on pleasures.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
There is no person who is not dangerous for some one.

             Marie de Sevigne (1626-1696)
@@
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies,
  not to whom thou hast done evil,
  but who have done evil to thee.
And those will be thy best friends,
  not to whom thou  hast done good,
  but who have done good to thee.

                      Lavater (1741-1801)
@@
A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

               Anne Swetchine (1782-1857)
@@
I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

                      Lincoln (1809-1865)
@@
Two dangers constantly threaten the world:
order and disorder.

                  Paul Valery (1871-1945)
@@
Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

                          Chinese Proverb
@@
The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances.
The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on.
The weak man grows agitated.
But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his
inner certainty of final success, and bides his time until the
onset of reassuring odds.

                     I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
@@
Know the enemy and know yourself;
 in a hundred battles you will never be in peril.
When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself,
 your chances of winning or losing are equal.
If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself,
 you are certain in every battle to be in peril.

                Sun Tzu (fl. c. B.C. 500)
@@
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since
there are few things for which he cares sufficiently;
but he is willing, in great crises to give even his life- knowing
that under certain conditions it is not worth while to live.

                 Aristotle (B.C. 384-322)
@@
There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

                       Pilpay (B.C. 300?)
@@
Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him
every hour.

                       Horace (B.C. 65-8)
@@
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation
of the utmost danger.

                       Lucan (39-65 A.D.)
@@
Method is more important than strength,
  when you wish to control your enemies.
By dropping golden beads near a snake,
  a crow once managed
To have a passer-by kill the snake
  for the beads.

              Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.)
@@
It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous.

             Fernando Rojas (1465?-1541?)
@@
There is no little enemy.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is
truly vanquished.

                     Schiller (1759-1805)
@@
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find
in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all
hostility.

                   Longfellow (1819-1892)
@@
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means
he uses to frighten you.

                  Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
@@
Men of sense often learn from their enemies.
It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the
lesson of building high walls and ships of war;
and this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their
properties.

              Aristophanes (B.C. 448-380)
@@
Some men are more beholden to their bitterest enemies than to
friends who appear to be sweetness itself.
The former frequently tell the truth, but the latter never.

            Cato the Younger (B.C. 95-46)
@@
Danger, the spur of all great minds.

               George Chapman (1557-1634)
@@
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

             Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658)
@@
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of
us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity
of strangers.

                  Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
@@
Everything is sweetened by risk.

              Alexander Smith (1830-1867)
@@
All centuries are dangerous, it is the business of the future
to be dangerous.
It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which
is inconsistent with civilization.
But, on the whole, the great ages have been the unstable ages.

       Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
@@
Behold the turtle.  He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

              James B. Conant (1893-1978)
@@
The worst enemy is one that fears the gods.

                Aeschylus ( B.C. 525-456)
@@
Even if the son of his enemy speaks sweetly,
The wise man remains on guard.
A poisonous leaf retains its potency,
And can cause injury at any time.

              Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.)
@@
If you have no enemies, it is a sign fortune has forgot you.

                Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
@@
Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

               Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
@@
Whatever the number of a man's friends,
there will be times in his life when he has one too few;
but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one
too many.

                Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
@@
We each have some dominant defect, by which the enemy can grasp us.
In some it is vanity, in others indolence, in most egotism.
Let a cunning and evil spirit possess himself of this, and you
are lost.

                  Albert Pike (1809-1891)
@@
A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke.
He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small
gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

                     I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
@@
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat.

               Proverbs (B.C. 1000?-200?)
@@
The world is always burning, burning with the fire of greed,
anger and ignorance; one should flee from such dangers as
soon as possible.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
@@
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

               Antisthenes (fl. B.C. 444)
@@
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies
excel us;  and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty,
and imitating what is excellent in them.

                   Plutarch (46-120 A.D.)
@@
If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

                    Tacitus (55-117 A.D.)
@@
Whoever benefits his enemy
With straightforward intention
That man's enemies will soon
Fold their hands in devotion.

              Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.)
@@
In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near
at hand;  but when we perceive that danger is near, we should
oppose it as if we were not afraid.

         The Hitopadesa (600?-1100? A.D.)
@@
O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with
your enemies.

                        Saadi (1184-1291)
@@
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

                  John Selden (1584-1654)
@@
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it;
he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

                      Quarles (1592-1644)
@@
In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though
calm.  Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your
spirit settled yet unbiased...An elevated spirit is weak and
a low spirit is weak.  Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

             Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645)
@@
Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out
to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

                       Colton (1780-1832)
@@
Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will
reduce the danger by half.  Never run away from anything.
Never!

            Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
@@
Man should observe the strictest self-restraint and reserve
in dangerous times.  In this way he incurs neither injury
from antagonists with designs on pre-eminence nor
obligations to others.

                     I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
@@
There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

                 Euripides (B.C. 480-406)
@@
It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit,
  than to do that of another, even though efficiently.
It is better to die doing one's own duty,
  for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

              Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
@@
You are dealing with a work full of dangerous hazard, and you
are venturing upon fires overlaid with treacherous ashes

                       Horace (B.C. 65-8)
@@
Send danger from the east unto the west,
So honor cross it from the north to south.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
O'er the ice the rapid skater flies,
  With sport above and death below,
Where mischief lurks in gay disguise
  Thus lightly touch and quickly go.

           Pierre Charles Roy (1683-1764)
@@
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is:
not to take the risk.
When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger
is to risk too much.

                  Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
@@
The world is large when its weary leagues two loving
  hearts divide;
But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the
  other side.

                John O'Reilly (1844-1890)
@@
For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
                     Genesis (B.C. 1200?)
@@
Even as a caterpillar, when coming to an end of a blade of grass,
reaches out to another blade of grass and draws itself over to
it, in the same way the Soul, leaving the body and unwisdom behind,
reaches out to another body and draws itself over to it.

                 Upanishads (c. B.C. 800)
@@
Then shalt dust return to the earth as it was:
and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

                 Ecclesiastes (B.C. 300?)
@@
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
We begin to die as soon as we are born,
and the end is linked to the beginning.

                  Manilius (fl. 100 A.D.)
@@
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

                       Milton (1608-1674)
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Death is the veil which those who live call life;
They sleep, and it is lifted.

                      Shelley (1792-1822)
@@
Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

                      Beecher (1813-1878)
@@
The Father is the Giver of Life;
but the Mother is the Giver of Death,
because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter,
and through her life is ensouled to form,
and no form can be either infinite or eternal.
Death is implicit in birth.

          Kabbalah (B.C. 1200?-700? A.D.)
@@
There are two ways of passing from this world -
one in light and one in darkness.
When one passes in light, he does not come back;
but when one passes in darkness, he returns.

              Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
@@
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor
and the towers of kings.

                       Horace (B.C. 65-8)
@@
It is as natural to die as to be born;
and to a little infant, perhaps,
the one is as painful as the other.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch,
Which hurts and is desired.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
And I still onward haste to my last night;
Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly;
So every day we live, a day we die.

               Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
@@
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And Death shall be no more;  Death, thou shalt die.

                   John Donne (1572-1632)
@@
Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and
yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

              William Mitford (1744-1827)
@@
Is death the last step?
No, it is the final awakening.

                 Walter Scott (1771-1832)
@@
For I say, this is death and the sole death,
When a man's loss comes to him from his gain,
Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance,
And lack of love from love made manifest.

              Robert Browning (1812-1889)
@@
Living is death;  dying is life.
We are not what we appear to be.
On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens;
on this side orphans, on that children;
on this side captives, on that freemen...

                      Beecher (1813-1878)
@@
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling
bolts and set us free.

                 James Lowell (1819-1891)
@@
Life is a dream walking
Death is a going home.

                          Chinese Proverb
@@
Involvement in a form is the beginning of the death of life.
It is a straightening and a limiting; a binding and a constricting.
Form checks life, thwarts it, and yet enables it to organize.
Seen from the point of view of free-moving force, incarceration
in a form is extinction.
Form disciplines force with a merciless severity.

          Kabbalah (B.C. 1200?-700? A.D.)
@@
Remember the men of old passed away,
those of days to come will also pass away:
a mortal ripens like corn and like corn is born again.

                 Upanishads (c. B.C. 800)
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No evil is honorable: but death is honorable;
therefore death is not evil.

                     Zeno (B.C. 335?-264)
@@
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being.
Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river.
But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law,
they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

             The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 300)
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
Nobody dies prematurely who dies in misery.

            Publilius Syrus (fl. B.C. 42)
@@
Death is sometimes a punishment, sometimes a gift;
to many it has come as a favor.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who
Before us passed the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the road
Which to discover we must travel too.

                  Omar Khayyam (fl. 1100)
@@
The fear of death is worse than death.

                Robert Burton (1576-1640)
@@
The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field
die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee.
Our stomachs are their common sepulcher.  Good God!
with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up!
how full of death is the life of momentary man!

                      Quarles (1592-1644)
@@
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary,
and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by
Providence as an evil to mankind.

                        Swift (1667-1745)
@@
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third
of life is passed in sleep.

                        Byron (1788-1824)
@@
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking
from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

          Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
@@
We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh,
and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass
represents him.

                 James Lowell (1819-1891)
@@
Man has the possibility of existence after death.
But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility
is quite a different thing.

                    Gurdjieff (1873-1949)
@@
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

                  Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
@@
This is thy present world, said the Flame to the Spark.
Thou art myself, my image, and my shadow. I have clothed myself
in thee, and thou art my vehicle to the day, "Be with us," when
thou shalt re-become myself and others, thyself and me.

               Book of Dzyan (B.C. 3000?)
@@
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

                  Socrates (B.C. 469-399)
@@
He whom the gods love dies young,
  while he is in health,
has his senses and his judgments sound.

                   Plautus (B.C. 254-184)
@@
Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death?
Fate will give an eternal rest.

                   Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.)
@@
This day, which thou fearest as thy last, is the birthday of eternity.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death,
that they may endure life.

                       Lucan (39-65 A.D.)
@@
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate
the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered
with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

                   Plutarch (46-120 A.D.)
@@
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses,
and from desires that make us their puppets,
and from the vagaries of the mind,
and from the hard service of the flesh.

           Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.)
@@
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
            Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
@@
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

                    Montaigne (1533-1592)
@@
Death is the cure for all diseases.

                Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
@@
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

                  Montesquieu (1689-1755)
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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep.
We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
Death is a commingling of eternity with time;
in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

                     Schiller (1759-1805)
@@
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight;
it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

                      Richter (1763-1825)
@@
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

                      Richter (1763-1825)
@@
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release,
the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure,
and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

                       Colton (1780-1832)
@@
How wonderful is death!
Death and his brother sleep.

                      Shelley (1792-1822)
@@
But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet
Lessen like sound of friends' departing feet;
And Death is beautiful as feet of friend
Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

                 James Lowell (1819-1891)
@@
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

                 Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
@@
There is no death!  the stars go down
  To rise upon some other shore,
And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown,
  They shine for ever more.

                John McCreery (1835-1906)
@@
Death is delightful.  Death is dawn,
The waking from a weary night
Of fevers unto truth and light.

               Joaquin Miller (1839-1913)
@@
The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient
part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival.
That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be
eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death into
eternal life.  This is the meaning of Resurrection.

      Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (born 1916)
@@
The path of immortality is hard, and only a few find it.
The rest await the Great Day when the wheels of the universe shall
be stopped and the immortal sparks shall escape from the sheaths
of substance.
Woe unto those who wait, for they must return again, unconscious
and unknowing, to the seed-ground of stars, and await a new beginning.

   The Divine Pymander (BC 2500?-200 AD?)
@@
O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who
ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

                 Philip II (B.C. 382-336)
@@
Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies
of men.

                    Juvenal (40-125 A.D.)
@@
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

                    Montaigne (1533-1592)
@@
Ah, what a sign it is of evil life,
Where death's approach is seen so terrible!

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
If some men died and others did not,
death would indeed be a most mortifying evil.

                   La Bruyere (1645-1696)
@@
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods
to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

                      Addison (1672-1719)
@@
A dying man can do nothing easy.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
To neglect, at any time, preparation for death,
is to sleep on our post at a siege;
to omit it in old age, is to sleep at an attack.

                      Johnson (1709-1784)
@@
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.  His reign is in 
solitude and darkness, in tombs and prisons, over weak
hearts and seething brains.  He lives, without shape or
sound, a phantasm, inaccessible to sight or touch, - a
ghastly and terrible apprehension.

               Barry Cornwall (1787-1874)
@@
Whatever crazy sorrow saith,
No life that breathes with human breath
Has ever truly longed for death.

              Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
@@
There is no such thing as death.
 In nature nothing dies.
From each sad remnant of decay 
 Some forms of life arise.

               Charles Mackay (1814-1889)
@@
Labour not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt
enjoy them.  He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth
away all that he hath.  As the arrow passeth through the heart,
while the warrior knew not that it was coming;  so shall his
life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
Trust not your own powers till the day of your death.

         The Talmud (B.C. 500?-400? A.D.)
@@
But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

                 Euripides (B.C. 480-406)
@@
Death is as sure for that which is born,
as birth is for that which is dead.
Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

              Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
@@
He who knows that this body is like froth,
and has learnt that it is as unsubstantial as a mirage,
will break the flower-pointed arrow of illusion,
and never see the king of death.

             The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 300)
@@
It is uncertain in what place death may await thee;
therefore expect it in any place.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain
any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

                  Epictetus (50-138 A.D.)
@@
Despise not death, but welcome it,
for Nature wills it like all else.

           Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.)
@@
At the moment of death there will appear to you, swifter than
lightning, the luminous splendour of the colourless light
of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides.
Terrified, you will flee from the radiance...Try to submerge
yourself in that light, giving up all belief in
a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.
Recognize that the boundless Light of this true Reality is your
own true self, and you shall be saved!

   Tibetan Book of the Dead (c. 780 A.D.)
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Do not be frightened or bewildered by the luminous, brilliant,
very sharp and clear light of supreme wisdom... Be drawn to it...
take refuge in it... Do not take pleasure in the soft light...
Do not be attracted to it or yearn for it.
It is an obstacle blocking the path of liberation.

   Tibetan Book of the Dead (c. 780 A.D.)
@@
If you don't know how to die, don't worry;
Nature will tell you what to do on the spot,
fully and adequately.
She will do this job perfectly for you;
don't bother your head about it.

                    Montaigne (1533-1592)
@@
Let no man fear to die,
we love to sleep all,
And death is but the sounder sleep.

             Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)
@@
If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

                Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
@@
Life that breathes now lies still and yet moves fast, rushing
but firmly fixed in the midst of the resting places.
The life of the dead one wanders as his nature wills.
The immortal comes from the same womb as the mortal.

                Rig Veda (B.C. 1200-900?)
@@
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before,
  Advanced a stage or two upon that road
Which you must travel in the steps they trod.

              Aristophanes (B.C. 448-380)
@@
Before long, alas!  this body will lie on the earth,
despised, without understanding, like a useless log.

             The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 300)
@@
I have lived, and I have run the course
which fortune allotted me;
and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave.

                      Vergil (B.C. 70-19)
@@
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment.
Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death,
Yet men delay to obtain release from the world.
Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

              Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.)
@@
Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss
of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

              al-Hallaj (c. 858-922 A.D.)
@@
I died a mineral, and became a plant.
I died a plant and rose an animal.
I died an animal and I was man.
Why should I fear?  When was I less by dying?

             Jalal-Uddin Rumi (1207-1273)
@@
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

                Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
@@
This man is freed from servile bands,
  Of hope to rise, or fear to fall;
Lord of himself, though not of lands,
  And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

               Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
@@
He was exhaled;  his great Creator drew
His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

                       Dryden (1631-1700)
@@
The prince who kept the world in awe,
The judge whose dictate fix'd the law;
The rich, the poor, the great, the small,
Are levelled;  death confounds 'em all.

                          Gay (1688-1732)
@@
As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath,
Receives the lurking principle of death,
The young disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

                         Pope (1688-1744)
@@
Would you extend your narrow span,
And make the most of life you can;
Would you, when medicines cannot save,
Descend with ease into the grave;
Calmly retire, like evening light,
And cheerful bid the world goodnight?

                     Voltaire (1694-1778)
@@
Then with no fiery throbbing pain,
  No cold gradations of decay,
Death broke at once the vital chain,
  And freed his soul the nearest way.

                      Johnson (1709-1784)
@@
All flesh is grass, and all its glory fades
Like the fair flower dishevelled in the wind;
Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream;
The man we celebrate must find a tomb,
And we that worship him, ignoble graves.

                       Cowper (1731-1800)
@@
Like the dew on the mountain, 
  Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
  Thou art gone, and for ever!

                 Walter Scott (1771-1832)
@@
First our pleasures die - and then
Our hopes, and then our fears - and when
These are dead, the debt is due,
Dust claims dust - and we die too.

                      Shelley (1792-1822)
@@
The sweet calm sunshine of October, now 
  Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould
The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough
  Drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.

        William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
@@
To every man upon this earth
  Death cometh soon or late,
And how can man die better
  Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers
  And the temples of his gods?

                     Macaulay (1800-1859)
@@
When a great man dies,
for years the light he leaves behind him,
lies on the paths of men.

                   Longfellow (1819-1892)
@@
Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

              Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
@@
Dying is a wild night and a new road.

              Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
@@
And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay
  The song of the sailors in glee:
So I think of the luminous footprints that bore
  The comfort o'er dark Galilee,
And wait for the signal to go to the shore,
  To the ship that is waiting for me.

                   Bret Harte (1836-1902)
@@
Out of the chill and the shadow,
  Into the thrill and the shine;
Out of the dearth and the famine,
  Into the fulness divine.

            Margaret Sangster (1838-1912)
@@
Age carries all things away, even the mind.

                      Vergil (B.C. 70-19)
@@
Old age is an incurable disease.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
All human things are subject to decay.

                       Dryden (1631-1700)
@@
Old age is an island surrounded by death.

                Juan Montalvo (1832-1889)
@@
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

                    Tacitus (55-117 A.D.)
@@
As we grow old we become both more foolish and more wise.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
We hope to grow old, yet we fear old age; that is,
we are willing to live, and afraid to die.

                   La Bruyere (1645-1696)
@@
Every man desires to live long;  but no man would be old.

                        Swift (1667-1745)
@@
As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges,
while that of our pleasures contracts.

               Anne Swetchine (1782-1857)
@@
Heaven gives our days of failing strength
  Indemnifying fleetness
And those of youth a seeming length
  Proportioned to their sweetness.

                  Thomas Hood (1798-1845)
@@
Forty is the old age of youth;
fifty the youth of old age.

                  Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
@@
Youth is fair, a graceful stag,
Leaping, playing in a park
Age is gray, a toothless hag,
Stumbling in the dark.

              Isaac L. Peretz (1852-1915)
@@
The young feel tired at the end of an action;
The old at the beginning.

                  T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
@@
Old people have fewer diseases than the young,
but their diseases never leave them.

               Hippocrates (B.C. 460-370)
@@
No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
Old age is by nature rather talkative.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
Nature hath appointed twilight as a bridge to pass us out of
day into night.

                Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
@@
Few persons know how to be old.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas;
there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and
ideas.

                     Voltaire (1694-1778)
@@
Age makes us not childish, as some say;
it finds us still true children.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
Winter, which strips the leaves from around us, makes us see
the distant regions they formerly concealed;
so does old age rob us of our enjoyments, only to enlarge
the prospect of eternity before us.

                      Richter (1763-1825)
@@
Autumn wins you best by this, its mute
Appeal to sympathy for its decay.

              Robert Browning (1812-1889)
@@
I've never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable
for anything else.

                Josh Billings (1815-1885)
@@
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom,
and one of the most difficult chapters
in the great art of living.

         Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
@@
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

                   Pindar (B.C. 518?-438)
@@
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.
When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped,
not from one master, but from many.

                   Plato (B.C. 427?-347?)
@@
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things
are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment;
in these qualities old age is usually not only not poorer, but is
even richer.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority,
that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
As for old age, embrace and love it.
It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it.
The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's
life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme
limit, they have their pleasure still.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
Even in decline, a virtuous man
Increases the beauty of his behavior.
A burning stick, though turned to the ground,
Has its flame drawn upwards.

               Saskya Pandita (1182-1251)
@@
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink,
old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

                   John Donne (1572-1632)
@@
The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.

                      Joubert (1754-1824)
@@
Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before
they begin to decay.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
@@
Age, like distance lends a double charm.

        Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
@@
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made.

              Robert Browning (1812-1889)
@@
For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

                   Longfellow (1819-1892)
@@
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh
life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

             George MacDonald (1824-1905)
@@
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap;
The year grows rich as it groweth old,
And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!

            Julia Ripley Dorr (1825-1913)
@@
How beautifully leaves grow old.
How full of light and colour are their last days.

               John Burroughs (1837-1921)
@@
The man reaches his declining years and recalls the transitoriness
of life.  Instead of enjoying the ordinary pleasures while they last,
he groans in melancholy.

                     I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
@@
What else is an old man but voice and shadow?

                 Euripides (B.C. 480-406)
@@
Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills:
they all take refuge in it.

                Antiphanes (B.C. 388-311)
@@
Nothing is more dishonorable than an old man, heavy with years,
who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his
age.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
Whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn
the present?

                    Montaigne (1533-1592)
@@
Men of age object too much, consult too long, 
adventure too little, repent too soon,
and seldom drive business home to the full period,
but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,
And then from hour to hour we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
Old age is a tyrant, which forbids the pleasure of youth on pain
of death.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
No skill or art is needed to grow old;
the trick is to endure it.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
Thus pleasures fade away;
Youth, talents, beauty, thus decay,
And leave us dark, forlorn, and gray.

                 Walter Scott (1771-1832)
@@
What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
  What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life's page,
  And be alone on earth as I am now.

                        Byron (1788-1824)
@@
Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease;
all others run into this one.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Few envy the consideration enjoyed by the eldest inhabitant.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties,
mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

             Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
@@
Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing
and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong,
and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied
and flourishing;  and those who are able-bodied can govern
to great advantage.

              Huang Ti (B.C. 2700?-2600?)
@@
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor.
One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making
a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a
renaissance.

                     I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
@@
It is always in season for old men to learn.

                Aeschylus ( B.C. 525-456)
@@
You must become an old man in good time
if you wish to be an old man long.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things
still;  for age will not be defied.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
No wise man ever wished to be younger.

                        Swift (1667-1745)
@@
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with
us.

                      Hazlitt (1778-1830)
@@
If wrinkles must be written upon your brows,
let them not be written upon the heart.
The spirit should not grow old.

               James Garfield (1831-1881)
@@
All objects of this world are perishable. This body is subject
to decay and death.
Remembrance of this will wean your mind from the sensual pleasures
and turn it inwards in awakening a sense of reality in the Unseen
and the Invisible.

                    Sivananda (born 1887)
@@
A green old age, unconscious of decay
That proves the hero born in better days.

                      Homer (c. B.C. 700)
@@
The mind of age is like a lamp
  Whose oil is running thin;
One moment it is shining bright,
  Then darkness closes in.

               Kalidasa (fl. c. 450 A.D.)
@@
Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard,
a decreasing leg, an increasing belly?
Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double,your
wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
And will you yet call yourself young?

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
He that loves a rosy cheek,
  Or a coral lip admires,
Or from star-like eyes doth seek
  Fuel to maintain his fires;
As old Time makes these decay,
  So his flames must waste away.

                Thomas Carew (1595?-1639)
@@
The sun, when he from noon declines,
and with abated heat less fiercely shines;
seems to grow milder as he goes away.

                       Dryden (1631-1700)
@@
An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay,
And glides in modest innocence away.

                      Johnson (1709-1784)
@@
Thus fares it still in our decay,
  And yet the wiser mind
Mourns less for what age takes away
  Than what it leaves behind.

                   Wordsworth (1770-1850)
@@
All that's bright must fade,
  The brightest still the fleetest;
All that's sweet was made
 But to be lost when sweetest.

                 Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
@@
Every season hath its pleasures;
 Spring may boast her flowery prime,
Yet the vineyard's ruby treasures
  Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.

                 Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
@@
Years steal fire from the mind, as vigor from the limb;
And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

                        Byron (1788-1824)
@@
The first forty years of life give us the text;
the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

                 Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
@@
The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing
winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown  and sear.

        William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
@@
Fires that shook me once, but now to silent ashes
  fall'n away,
Cold upon the dead volcano sleeps the gleam of
  dying day.

              Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
@@
How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow 
Into the arctic regions of our lives, 
Where little else than life itself survives.

                   Longfellow (1819-1892)
@@
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better,
they don't know anything at all.

                  Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
@@
Twilight, a timid fawn, went glimmering by,
And Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

            George W. Russell (1867-1935)
@@
Senescence begins
And middle age ends,
The day your descendents,
Outnumber your friends.

                   Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
@@
Doubt is the father of invention.

                      Galileo (1564-1642)
@@
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they
can enter into the temple of wisdom.

                       Colton (1780-1832)
@@
Despair is the conclusion of fools.

                     Disraeli (1804-1881)
@@
Who never doubted, never half believed.
Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

                       Bailey (1816-1902)
@@
Doubt is the opposite of belief.

                        Bovee (1820-1904)
@@
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

            Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936)
@@
Doubt is the key to knowledge.

                          Persian Proverb
@@
True wisdom is less presuming than folly.
The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind;
the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not;
he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil
as it is for the bad to suspect good.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties
  he shall end in doubts;
but if he be content to begin with doubts,
  he shall end in certainties.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
Despair is the damp of hell,
as joy is the serenity of heaven.

                   John Donne (1572-1632)
@@
Industry pays debts, despair increases them.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity
to scepticism.

             Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
@@
Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt,
be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

                        Bovee (1820-1904)
@@
Great doubts
  deep wisdom...
Small doubts
  little wisdom.

                          Chinese Proverb
@@
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they
never fly by twilight.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
He that knows nothing doubts nothing.

                      Herbert (1593-1632)
@@
Suspicion follows close on mistrust.

             Gotthold Lessing (1729-1781)
@@
We know accurately only when we know little,
with knowledge doubt increases.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

                      Carlyle (1795-1881)
@@
Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

              Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893)
@@
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions
by finding what we suspect.

                      Thoreau (1817-1862)
@@
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an
advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies
as against despots - suspicion.

               Demosthenes (B.C. 384-322)
@@
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that
at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

               Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
@@
Doubt is an incentive to truth,
and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

                 Hosea Ballou (1771-1852)
@@
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.

              Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
@@
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized
man.

        Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
@@
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial;
but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon
lead to full establishment of the truth.
                Tryon Edwards (1809-1894)
@@
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery,
must accompany the stages of man's onward progress.
The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those
of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine
prerogative of the reason.

                  Albert Pike (1809-1891)
@@
An honest man can never surrender an honest doubt.

                Walter Malone (1866-1915)
@@
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to
believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

                H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
@@
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
Doubt separates people.  It is a poison that disintegrates
friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.
It is a thorn that irritates and hurts;
it is a sword that kills.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
@@
Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in
store for him who always doubts.

              Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
@@
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

                    Cervantes (1547-1616)
@@
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might
win by fearing to attempt.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
To doubt is worse than to have lost;  And to despair is but to
antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

             Philip Massinger (1583-1640)
@@
Always to think the worst, I have ever found to be the mark of a mean
spirit and a base soul.

                  Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
@@
Suspicion is no less an enemy to virtue than to happiness.

                      Johnson (1709-1784)
@@
Despair is a mental state which exaggerates not only our misery
but also our weakness.

                  Vauvenargues(1715-1747)
@@
Suspicion is a heavy armor, and with its own weight impedes more
than protects.

                        Byron (1788-1824)
@@
The fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

                      Carlyle (1795-1881)
@@
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the
ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself.
He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person
to be convinced of it.

              Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
@@
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

                   Mark Twain (1835-1910)
@@
Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.

                  John Buchan (1875-1940)
@@
When you doubt, abstain.

               Zoroaster (B.C. 628?-551?)
@@
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

                   Terence (B.C. 185-159)
@@
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little,
and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know
more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others
as of ourselves;  neither vanity nor conceit can exist
in the same atmosphere with it.

               Suzanne Necker (1739-1794)
@@
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by Action alone.

                      Carlyle (1795-1881)
@@
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

                        Bovee (1820-1904)
@@
The important thing is not to stop questioning.

                     Einstein (1879-1955)
@@
Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes;
but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into
men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one

                Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
@@
I'll trust him no further than I can fling him.

                     John Ray (1627-1705)
@@
There was a castle called Doubting Castle,
the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

                  John Bunyan (1628-1688)
@@
If the Sun and Moon should doubt
They'd immediately Go out.

                William Blake (1757-1828)
@@
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first
moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known
what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired
and have recovered hope.

                 George Eliot (1819-1880)
@@
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself,
and hates them for it.

                   G. B. Shaw (1856-1950)
@@
Pessimist:
One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

                  Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
@@
Ambition's like a circle on the water,
Which never ceases to enlarge itself,
'Till by broad spreading it disperses to nought.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

                       Pascal (1623-1662)
@@
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition
of it:  enthusiasm signifies God in us.

            Germaine De Stael (1766-1817)
@@
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

                  Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
@@
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort...

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Enthusiasm...the sustaining power of all great action.

                Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)
@@
Though ambition in itself is a vice,
yet it is often the parent of virtues.

                  Quintilian (35-90 A.D.)
@@
One often passes from love to ambition, but one rarely returns
from ambition to love.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
The ambitious deceive themselves when they propose an end to
their ambition;  for that end, when attained, becomes a means.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools

               John Tillotson (1630-1694)
@@
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
               Anatole France (1844-1924)
@@
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however
high we reach we are never satisfied.

                  Machiavelli (1469-1527)
@@
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious
men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety,
but never reach the top.

                Robert Burton (1576-1640)
@@
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

                  John Denham (1615-1668)
@@
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice
makes concerning wealth.
She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and
she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.

                       Colton (1780-1832)
@@
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

                     Disraeli (1804-1881)
@@
Ambition is not what man does...
but what man would do.

              Robert Browning (1812-1889)
@@
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.

               Charles Buxton (1823-1871)
@@
Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness,
holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary
to animal life.

             Andrew Bonar Law (1858-1923)
@@
He who possesses the source of Enthusiasm
Will achieve great things.
Doubt not.  You will gather friends around you
As a hair clasp gathers the hair.

                     I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
@@
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection
of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

                Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
@@
Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow
wiser and more serene.

                     Channing (1780-1842)
@@
Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is
the triumph of some enthusiasm.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm;
it moves stones, it charms brutes.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity
and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

                Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
@@
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes
life worth living.

        Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
@@
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

               Thomas English (1819-1902)
@@
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

                        Bovee (1820-1904)
@@
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred
by spiritless men.  Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort
and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

              Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947)
@@
The ambitious will always be first in the crowd;
he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him.
More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to
leave thousands at a distance.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
Ambition destroys its possessor.

         The Talmud (B.C. 500?-400? A.D.)
@@
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition
that it never looks behind it.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

                  John Davies (1570-1626)
@@
Ambition, a proud covetousness, or a dry thirst of honour, a
great torture of the mind, composed of envy, pride, and covetousness,
a gallant madness, one defines it a pleasant poison.

                Robert Burton (1576-1640)
@@
A slave has but one master;  the ambitious man has as many
masters as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the
advancement of his fortune.

                   La Bruyere (1645-1696)
@@
Ambition - A lust that is never quenched,
grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

                 Thomas Otway (1652-1685)
@@
Ambition is a vice which often puts men upon doing the meanest
offices;  so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

                        Swift (1667-1745)
@@
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation,
than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

                      Addison (1672-1719)
@@
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love
of justice against offenders.

               Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
@@
Ambition breaks the ties of blood,
and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

                 Walter Scott (1771-1832)
@@
Ambition has but one reward for all:
A little power, a little transient fame;
A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

               William Winter (1836-1917)
@@
Ambition: An overmastering desire to be vilified by
enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

              Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
@@
Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge
is lost;  let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss
thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
@@
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

            Publilius Syrus (fl. B.C. 42)
@@
Fling away ambition;  by that sin fell the angels:
how can man then, the image of his Maker, hope to win by it?

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
Be always displeased at what thou art,
if thou desire to attain to what thou art not;
for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.

                      Quarles (1592-1644)
@@
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for
each one of us;  and true progress is to know more, and be more,
and to do more.

                      Lubbock (1834-1913)
@@
Too low they build who build beneath the stars.

                        Young (1683-1765)
@@
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the
end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which
every desire prompts the prosecution.

                      Johnson (1709-1784)
@@
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings
Great minds are carried only to extreme;
To be sublimely great or to be nothing.

               Robert Southey (1774-1843)
@@
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the
horse-power of the understanding.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Zealots have an idol, to which they consecrate themselves high-priests,
and deem it holy work to offer sacrifices of whatever is most
precious.

          Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
@@
Evil is simply misplaced force.
It can be misplaced in time,
like the violence that is acceptable
in war is unacceptable in peace.
It can be misplaced in space,
like a burning coal on the rug rather than the fireplace.
Or it can be misplaced in proportion,
like an excess of love can make us overly sentimental,
or a lack of love can make us cruel and destructive.
It is in things such as these that evil lies,
not in a personal Devil who acts as an Adversary.

          Kabbalah (B.C. 1200?-700? A.D.)
@@
All cruelty springs from weakness.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
Sin is essentially a departure from God.

                Martin Luther (1483-1546)
@@
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess,
perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

            John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
@@
What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

                    Nietzsche (1844-1900)
@@
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
                  Socrates (B.C. 469-399)
@@
They who are ashamed of what they ought not to be,
  and are not ashamed of what they ought to be,
such men, embracing false doctrines, enter the evil path.
They who fear when they ought not to fear,
  and fear not when they ought to fear,
such men, embracing false doctrines, enter the evil path.

             The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 300)
@@
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment;
good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

                    Juvenal (40-125 A.D.)
@@
To overcome evil with good is good,
to resist evil by evil is evil.

                  Mohammed (570-632 A.D.)
@@
The evil man is like a pot of clay,
easily breaking, but reunited with difficulty;
whilst a good man is like a jar of gold,
hard to break and quickly to be joined again.

         The Hitopadesa (600?-1100? A.D.)
@@
The greatest evils, are from within us;
and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.

                Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)
@@
Vice stings us even in our pleasures,
but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

                       Cowper (1731-1800)
@@
The cruelty of the weak is more dreadful than that
of the strong.

                      Lavater (1741-1801)
@@
Evil is a form of good, of which the results are not immediately
manifest.

                       Balzac (1799-1850)
@@
The first lesson of history, is, that evil is good.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Preventives of evil are far better than remedies;
cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

                Tryon Edwards (1809-1894)
@@
Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

                       Bailey (1816-1902)
@@
He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let
him into heaven.

                 Hare & Charles (c. 1830)
@@
Sin may open bright as the morning, but it will end dark as night.

               Thomas Talmage (1832-1902)
@@
Evil exists to glorify the good.
Evil is negative good.
It is a relative term.
Evil can be transmuted into good.
What is evil to one at one time,
becomes good at another time to somebody else.

                    Sivananda (born 1887)
@@
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

                 Confucius (B.C. 551-479)
@@
Evil events from evil causes spring.

              Aristophanes (B.C. 448-380)
@@
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though
it be not perpetrated in the art.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
There are a thousand forms of evil;
there will be a thousand remedies.

                   Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.)
@@
The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.
                    Juvenal (40-125 A.D.)
@@
Through no amount of effort can a naturally wicked man
Be turned into an honest one.
However long you boil water,
It is impossible to make it burn like fire.

               Saskya Pandita (1182-1251)
@@
He that falls into sin is a man;
that grieves at it may be a saint;
that boasteth of it is a devil.

                Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
@@
Sin first is pleasing, then it grows easy, then delightful, then
frequent, then habitual, then confirmed;
then the man is impenitent, then he is obstinate, then he is resolved
never to repent, and then he is ruined.

              Robert Leighton (1611-1684)
@@
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that
sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

                   L'Estrange (1616-1704)
@@
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit
still in a room.

                       Pascal (1623-1662)
@@
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions
than the prospect of good.

                   John Locke (1632-1704)
@@
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

                       Junius (1740-1818)
@@
Sin puts on that which tempteth to destruction.
It has been said that sin is like the bee,
with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.

                 Hosea Ballou (1771-1852)
@@
This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still
it brings forth evil.

             Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834)
@@
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable?
Nay, why do we call men wicked at all?
Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

                  Horace Mann (1796-1859)
@@
Moral Evil is Falsehood in actions;
 as Falsehood is Crime in words.
Injustice is the essence of Falsehood;
 and every false word is an injustice.
Injustice is the death of the Moral Being,
  as Falsehood is the poison of the Intelligence.

                  Albert Pike (1809-1891)
@@
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who
is striking at the root.

                      Thoreau (1817-1862)
@@
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary;
men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

                Joseph Conrad (1857-1934)
@@
One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all,
that there exist only different conceptions of good.
Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil,
for the sake of evil.
Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it.
But everybody understands it in a different way.
Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests
of good.

                    Gurdjieff (1873-1949)
@@
Evil is unspectacular and always human And shares our bed and
eats at our own table.

                  W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
@@
Sin is hoping for another life and...eluding the implacable
grandeur of this life.

                 Albert Camus (1913-1960)
@@
Mankind fears an evil man
But heaven does not.

                          Chinese Proverb
@@
The best known evil is the most tolerable.

                   Livy (B.C. 59-17 A.D.)
@@
The sun shines even on the wicked.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises;
and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood,
nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

                Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
@@
The vices enter into the composition of the virtues,
as poisons into that of medicines.
Prudence collects, arranges, and uses them
beneficially against the ills of life.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example
of good;  and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil
which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

                       Pascal (1623-1662)
@@
There is this good in real evils, - they deliver us, while they
last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.

                       Colton (1780-1832)
@@
The world loves a spice of wickedness.

                   Longfellow (1819-1892)
@@
It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great
lessons.

                        Bovee (1820-1904)
@@
The fool who does evil to a man who is good, to a man who is pure and
free from sin, the evil returns to him like the dust thrown against
the wind.

             The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 300)
@@
Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

                   Plautus (B.C. 254-184)
@@
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried,
what wickedness has it shunned?

                       Horace (B.C. 65-8)
@@
Cruelty is fed, not weakened by tears.

            Publilius Syrus (fl. B.C. 42)
@@
Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the
sick together.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

                   Plutarch (46-120 A.D.)
@@
Who though he has been born a man
  yet gives himself to evil ways,
More foolish is he than the fool
  who fills with vomit, urine, dung
Golden vessels jewel-adorned -
  harder man's birth to gain than these.

              Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.)
@@
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do
it from religious conviction.

                       Pascal (1623-1662)
@@
The happiness of the wicked passes away like a torrent.

         Jean Baptiste Racine (1639-1699)
@@
If you do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

                     Rousseau (1712-1778)
@@
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men
to do nothing.

                        Burke (1729-1797)
@@
Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy;
they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.

                       Tupper (1810-1889)
@@
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural
moral law. Nature has no principles.
She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is
to be respected.
Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between
good and evil.

               Anatole France (1844-1924)
@@
If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear,
but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and
condemn him for their sake forever.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
@@
Keep far way from an evil neighbor, do not associate with the
wicked, and do not shrug off all thought of calamity.

         The Talmud (B.C. 500?-400? A.D.)
@@
The gates of hell are three:  lust, wrath and avarice.
They destroy the Self.  Avoid them.

              Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
@@
Let no man think lightly of evil, saying in his heart, it will
not come to stay with me.
Even by the falling of water-drops a water-pot is filled;
the fool becomes full of evil, even if he gather it little by little.

             The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 300)
@@
Every evil in the bud is easily crushed:
as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must
keep far from evil companions.
                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

                      Romans (c. 56 A.D.)
@@
O ye men!  Eat of the produce of the earth things that are
lawful and pure, and follow not the footsteps of the evil-one;
surely, he is an enemy to you clear.

                      Koran (c. 651 A.D.)
@@
Association with corrupt people is a pain, the cure of which is separating
yourself from them.

               Abu Ali Katib (fl. c. 940)
@@
When better choices are not to be had,
We needs must take the seeming best of bad.

               Samuel Daniel (1562?-1619)
@@
Each year, one vicious habit rooted in time ought to make the worst
man good.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil!
If a man has acted right, he has done well, though alone;
if wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him.

               Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
@@
The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

             Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834)
@@
For every evil under the sun,
There is a remedy, or there is none;
If there be one, try and find it,
If there is none, never mind it.

                      Hazlitt (1778-1830)
@@
Between two evils, choose neither;
between two goods, choose both.

                Tryon Edwards (1809-1894)
@@
The true rule in determining to embrace or reject anything is
not whether it have any evil in it, but whether it have more of
evil than of good.
There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.

                      Lincoln (1809-1865)
@@
Strive with thy thoughts unclean before they overpower thee.
Use them as they will thee, for if thou sparest them and they take
root and grow, know well, these thoughts will overpower and
kill thee.  Beware!  Suffer not their shadow to approach.
For it will grow, increase in size and power, and then this thing
of darkness will absorb thy being before thou hast well realized
the black foul monster's presence.

              H. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891)
@@
The butcher relenteth not at the bleating of the lamb;
neither is the heart of the cruel moved with distress.
But the tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dew-drops,
falling from roses on the bosom of spring.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would
soon be out of thunderbolts.

                   Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.)
@@
In whatever manner you fashion a wicked man,
It is impossible to make his nature good.
You may wash charcoal with zeal,
But you will not make it white.

               Saskya Pandita (1182-1251)
@@
Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal lust
Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel;
And, like the blast of pestilential winds,
Taints the sweet bloom of nature's fairest forms.

                       Milton (1608-1674)
@@
When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves with the idea that
we have left them.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
Vice is a monster so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

                         Pope (1688-1744)
@@
Scarcely anything awakens attention like a tale of cruelty.
The writer of news never fails to tell how the enemy murdered children
and ravished virgins.

                      Johnson (1709-1784)
@@
I would not enter in my list of friends,
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
An inadvertent step may crush the snail
That crawls at evening in the public path,
But he has the humanity, forewarned,
Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.

                       Cowper (1731-1800)
@@
Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers
on their road. - Both appear great at a distance, but when we
approach them we find they are far less insurmountable than we
had conceived.

                       Colton (1780-1832)
@@
There are times when it would seem as if God fished with a line,
and the Devil with a net.

               Anne Swetchine (1782-1857)
@@
But, by all thy nature's weakness,
  Hidden faults and follies known,
Be thou, in rebuking evil,
  Conscious of thine own.

      John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
@@
Wild animals never kill for sport.
Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures
is amusing in itself.

                       Froude (1818-1894)
@@
It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that in all things good,
gain is harder and slower than loss;
but in all things bad or evil, getting is quicker and easier than
getting rid of them.

                 Hare & Charles (c. 1830)
@@
Vice is waste of life.
Poverty, obedience, and celibacy are the canonical vices.
                   G. B. Shaw (1856-1950)
@@
The very emphasis of the commandment:
Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from
an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose
love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

                Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
@@
It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

                H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
@@
Virtuous ten years - still not enough.
Evil one day - too much already.

                          Chinese Proverb
@@
Men do not fail;
they give up trying.

                   Elihu Root (1845-1937)
@@
Failure - The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it,
but never does it himself.

               Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915)
@@
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they
  are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the
  beginning, there will be no failure.

                   Lao-Tzu (fl. B.C. 600)
@@
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

                    Montaigne (1533-1592)
@@
One seldom rushes into a single error.
Rushing into the first one, one always does too much.
Hence one usually commits another; and this time does too little.

                    Nietzsche (1844-1900)
@@
In this world there are only two tragedies.
One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
The last is much the worst;  the last is a real tragedy!

                  Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
@@
Defeat ensues when others interfere with the authority of the
chosen leader. Divided command is often fatal.

                     I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
@@
Few things are impracticable in themselves.
It is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

                        Swift (1667-1745)
@@
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

               Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
@@
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

              Richard Whately (1787-1863)
@@
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed
was not strong enough.

                        Bovee (1820-1904)
@@
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

                       Farrar (1831-1903)
@@
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

             Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931)
@@
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

               Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929)
@@
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.

                  Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
@@
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

              William Feather (born 1888)
@@
If the first words fail...
Ten thousand will not then avail.

                          Chinese Proverb
@@
What is defeat?  Nothing but education;
nothing but the first step to something better.

             Wendell Phillips (1811-1884)
@@
How far high failure overleaps the bound of low successes.

                 Lewis Morris (1835-1907)
@@
"All honor to him who shall win the prize,"
  The world has cried for a thousand years;
But to him who tries and fails and dies,
I give great honor and glory and tears.

               Joaquin Miller (1839-1913)
@@
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world
as faithfully as a distinguished success.

                Edward Dowden (1843-1913)
@@
There is something good in all seeming failures.
You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it.
Be patient.

                    Sivananda (born 1887)
@@
It is often the failure who is the pioneer of new lands, new undertakings,
and new forms of expression.

                  Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
@@
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through
failure.

              William Saroyan (1908-1981)
@@
There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this
world:
 first, to cease growing old when he is growing old;
 second, to cease being sick;
 third, to cease dying;
 fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution;
 fifth, to deny non-being.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
@@
The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

                      Vergil (B.C. 70-19)
@@
Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are
accidents.  But to suffer for one's own faults - Ah!
there is the sting of life.

                  Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
@@
Man is not made for defeat.

             Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961)
@@
Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

               Galeazzo Ciano (1903-1944)
@@
Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

                  La Fontaine (1621-1695)
@@
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather
a fresh stimulus.

                 Robert South (1634-1716)
@@
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

             Richard Sheridan (1751-1816)
@@
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat...
Health alone is victory.
Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

                      Carlyle (1795-1881)
@@
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually
fearing you will make one.

               Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915)
@@
Conquer thyself.  Till thou hast done this, thou art but a slave;
for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite
as to thine own.

            Richard E. Burton (1861-1940)
@@
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

            Charles Kettering (1876-1958)
@@
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will
only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression.
Do not repeat them in the future.

                    Sivananda (born 1887)
@@
Behold prosperity, how sweetly she flattereth thee;
how insensibly she robbeth thee of thy strength and thy vigour!
Though thou has been constant in ill fortune, though thou has
been invincible in distress;  yet by her thou art conquered:
not knowing that thy strength returneth not again;
and yet that thou again mayst need it.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
What though the field be lost?
All is not lost;
the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate
And courage never to submit or yield,
And what else is not to be overcome.

                       Milton (1608-1674)
@@
There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those
who cannot endure to be thought so.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

                   Longfellow (1819-1892)
@@
Greatly begin!  Though thou have time
But for a line, be that sublime-
Not failure, but low aim is crime.

                 James Lowell (1819-1891)
@@
We are the doubles of those whose way
  Was festal with fruits and flowers;
Body and brain we were sound as they,
  But the prizes were not ours.

            Richard E. Burton (1861-1940)
@@
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

                  Socrates (B.C. 469-399)
@@
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and
now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

                        Dante (1265-1321)
@@
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen,
and drowns things weighty and solid.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save
that the echo repeats only the last part, but fame relates all,
and often more than all.

                Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
@@
Fame is the thirst of youth.

                        Byron (1788-1824)
@@
The dog barks;
the Caravan passes.

                          Arabian Proverb
@@
Glory, like a shadow, flieth from him who pursueth it;
but it followeth at the heels of him who would fly from it;
if thou courtest it without merit, thou shalt never attain unto it;
if thou deservest it, though thou hidest thyself,
it will never forsake thee.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
There is no less danger from great fame than from infamy.

                    Tacitus (55-117 A.D.)
@@
Good fame is like fire;  when you have kindled
you may easily preserve it;
but if you extinguish it,
you will not easily kindle it again.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror:
For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having
written well, and those who read their works desire the fame
of having read them.
                       Pascal (1623-1662)
@@
Renown is a source of toil and sorrow;
obscurity is a source of happiness.

                  Von Mosheim (1694-1755)
@@
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give.
When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

                Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)
@@
Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow.
The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval
today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest
whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

                 Henry Miller (1891-1980)
@@
The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world
are an alluring mirage!
Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality
in themselves, but they are like heat haze.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
@@
I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

                 Confucius (B.C. 551-479)
@@
Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

                 Euripides (B.C. 480-406)
@@
True glory takes root, and even spreads;
all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground;
nor can any counterfeit last long.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge
itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
The glories of our birth and state
Are shadows, not substantial things.

                James Shirley (1596-1666)
@@
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
                       Milton (1608-1674)
@@
What is fame?  The advantage of being known by people of
whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

       Leszczynski Stanislaus (1677-1766)
@@
And what is Fame?  the Meanest have their Day,
The Greatest can but blaze, and pass away.

                         Pope (1688-1744)
@@
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it;
and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
Fame, we may understand is no sure test of merit, but only a probability
of such:  it is an accident, not a property of a man.

                      Carlyle (1795-1881)
@@
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny,
for it is destiny.

                   Longfellow (1819-1892)
@@
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world;
whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

                 Hare & Charles (c. 1830)
@@
Illusion is an element which enters into all finite things,
for everything that exists has only a relative, not an absolute,
reality, since the appearance which the hidden phenomenon
assumes for any observer depends upon his power of cognition.

              H. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891)
@@
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

        Oliver W. Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
@@
The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

                  Andy Warhol (born 1930)
@@
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

                   Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.)
@@
It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it
said, "There goes the man."

                     Persius (34-62 A.D.)
@@
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest;
when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

                     Schiller (1759-1805)
@@
Let us not disdain glory too much;  nothing is finer, except virtue.
- The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

                Chateaubriand (1768-1848)
@@
Fame, they tell you, is air;
but without air there is no life for any;
without fame there is none for the best.

                       Landor (1775-1864)
@@
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living.
It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

                      Hazlitt (1778-1830)
@@
Though fame is smoke, its fumes are frankincense to human thoughts.

                        Byron (1788-1824)
@@
Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps
through congenial minds.

                 Anna Jameson (1794-1860)
@@
Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes
Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.

               Joaquin Miller (1839-1913)
@@
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at
the wheels of her glittering car.

                       Horace (B.C. 65-8)
@@
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

                    Juvenal (40-125 A.D.)
@@
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame;
give me the man who living makes a name.

                    Martial (43-104 A.D.)
@@
The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

                    Tacitus (55-117 A.D.)
@@
And what after all is everlasting fame?  All together vanity

           Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.)
@@
All fame is dangerous:  Good, bringeth Envy;  Bad, Shame.

                Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
@@
Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead,
and with just as little use to them.

              George Villiers (1628-1687)
@@
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must
direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

                      Spinoza (1632-1677)
@@
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame;
life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

                   La Bruyere (1645-1696)
@@
What's fame?  a fancy'd life in other's breath.
A thing beyond us, even before our death.

                         Pope (1688-1744)
@@
What a heavy burden is  a name that has become too famous.

                     Voltaire (1694-1778)
@@
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

                     Rousseau (1712-1778)
@@
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

                  Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
@@
Glory, built on selfish  principles, is shame and guilt.

                       Cowper (1731-1800)
@@
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of
talent.

                     Chamfort (1741-1794)
@@
How men long for celebrity!
Some would willingly sacrifice their lives for fame, and not
a few would rather be known by their crimes than not known at
all.

                John Sinclair (1754-1835)
@@
Fame and power are the objects of all men.
Even their partial fruition is gained by very few;
and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience,
life.

                     Disraeli (1804-1881)
@@
Fame is not just.
She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

                      Thoreau (1817-1862)
@@
Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

                      Thoreau (1817-1862)
@@
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not
to be depended on.

                        Bovee (1820-1904)
@@
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't
know.

                H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
@@
Fame is the penalty of success.
Jealousy is the penalty of fame.

                    Sivananda (born 1887)
@@
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written;
in writing what deserves to be read;
and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our
living in it.
             Pliny the Elder (23-79 A.D.)
@@
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

                    Montaigne (1533-1592)
@@
The fame of great men ought always to be estimated by the means
used to acquire it.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
Avoid popularity;
it has many snares, and no real benefit.

                 William Penn (1614-1718)
@@
Of present fame think little, and of future less;
the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers
that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living,
but they are nothing to the dead...

                       Colton (1780-1832)
@@
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure.
The dread of censure is the death of genius.

                William Simms (1806-1870)
@@
The veil of illusion cannot be lifted by a mere decision of reason,
but demands the most thoroughgoing and persevering preparation
consisting in the full payment of all debts to life.

                   C. G. Jung (1875-1961)
@@
The life, which others pay, let us bestow,
And give to fame what we to nature owe.

                      Homer (c. B.C. 700)
@@
She (Fame) walks on the earth, and her head is concealed in the
clouds.

                      Vergil (B.C. 70-19)
@@
All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies;
because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with
parching power.

                        Dante (1265-1321)
@@
There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most
famous.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness
to the winds;  but he that endeavors after it by false merit,
has to fear, not only the violence of the storm,
but the leaks of his vessel.

                      Johnson (1709-1784)
@@
O Fame!
if I e'er took delight in thy praises,
'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases,
Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover
The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.

                        Byron (1788-1824)
@@
Thou hast a charmed cup, O Fame!
  A draught that mantles high,
And seems to lift this earthly frame
  Above mortality.
Away! to me -a woman- bring
Sweet water from affection's spring.

               Felicia Hemans (1794-1835)
@@
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings,
those who cheer today will curse tomorrow, only one thing endures
- character.

               Horace Greeley (1811-1872)
@@
Lives of great men all remind us 
  We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
  Footprints on the sands of time.

                   Longfellow (1819-1892)
@@
Fame is a bee
It has a song-
It has a sting-
Ah, too, it has a wing.

              Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
@@
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to
live.
                   Mark Twain (1835-1910)
@@
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes.
They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you,
for it was the illusion they loved.

             Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
@@
Riches:  A dream in the night...
Fame:  A gull floating on water.

                          Chinese Proverb
@@
The family is the nucleus of civilization.

                  Will Durant (1885-1981)
@@
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.
If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as
a flower garden.
But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like
a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
@@
If we could trace our descendants, we should find all slaves to
come from princes, and all princes from slaves.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
Children sweeten labors;
but they make misfortunes more bitter.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes;
fathers that children with their judgment looked;
and either may be wrong.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
The child is father of the man.

                   Wordsworth (1770-1850)
@@
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir.
He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

        Frederick Henry Hedge (1805-1890)
@@
Many children, many cares;
no children, no felicity.

                        Bovee (1820-1904)
@@
All happy families resemble one another;
every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

                  Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
@@
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.

                           Jewish Proverb
@@
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born,
so he be a man of merit.

                       Horace (B.C. 65-8)
@@
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

                       Lucan (39-65 A.D.)
@@
It is a wise father that knows his own child.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to
search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches
ought to produce.

                 Isaac Barrow (1630-1677)
@@
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while
one aims at power and the other at independence.

                      Johnson (1709-1784)
@@
The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.

                     Napoleon (1769-1821)
@@
There are fathers who do not love their children;
there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

                  Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
@@
Men are what their mothers made them.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.

                    Thackeray (1811-1863)
@@
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the
child.

                      Beecher (1813-1878)
@@
Where does the family start?
It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior
alternative has yet been found.

            Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
@@
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're
going to have.

                 Ring Lardner (1885-1933)
@@
What gift has Providence bestowed on man that
is so dear to him as his children?

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle,
to creep, and to play with them?

                  Epictetus (50-138 A.D.)
@@
Children are poor men's riches.

                     John Ray (1627-1705)
@@
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have
passed at home in the bosom of my family.

             Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
@@
In the family where the father rules secure, there dwells the
peace which thou wilt in vain seek for elsewhere in the wide
world outside.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
To make a happy fire-side clime
  To weans and wife,
That's the true pathos and sublime
  Of human life.

                 Robert Burns (1759-1796)
@@
Where children are, there is the golden age.

                      Novalis (1772-1801)
@@
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has
a child to love.

               Robert Southey (1774-1843)
@@
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters
may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives,
wives their husbands.
But a mother's love endures through all.

            Washington Irving (1783-1859)
@@
Nor need we power or splendour,
  Wide hall or lordly dome;
The good, the true, the tender-
  These form the wealth of home.

                Sarah J. Hale (1788-1879)
@@
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

                 John Bowring (1792-1872)
@@
Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

                Robert Pollok (1798-1827)
@@
Nature's loving proxy, the watchful mother.

                Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
@@
Children are the keys of paradise.

             Richard Stoddard (1825-1903)
@@
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal,with
possibilites of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

                 Lyman Abbott (1835-1922)
@@
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children,
if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success
and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

           Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
@@
Few sons attain the praise
Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.

                      Homer (c. B.C. 700)
@@
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness,
And your throat coughs the last gasping breath -
As one dragged in the dark to a great precipice -
What assistance are a wife and child?

              Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.)
@@
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune;
for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue
or mischief.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
Some people seem compelled by unkind fate to parental servitude
for life.  There is no form of penal servitude worse than this.

                Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
@@
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves
have poisoned the fountain.

                   John Locke (1632-1704)
@@
It is only shallow-minded pretenders who either make distinguished
origin a matter of personal merit, or obscure origin a matter
of personal reproach.

               Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
@@
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle
in human nature;
one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single
weakness.

                 James Lowell (1819-1891)
@@
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got
the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct
about when to die.

                  Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
@@
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second
half by our children.

              Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)
@@
I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have
a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed
by drink and harlots.

                        Yeats (1865-1939)
@@
A proper balance must be struck between indulgence and severity.
However, severity, despite occasional mistakes, is preferable
to a lack of discipline.

                     I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
@@
Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old,he will
not depart from it.

          Wisdom of Solomon (c. B.C. 200)
@@
It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry.
- It is not less so to be such that people do not
care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.

                   La Bruyere (1645-1696)
@@
Children have more need of models than of critics.

                      Joubert (1754-1824)
@@
It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted
by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

                 Hosea Ballou (1771-1852)
@@
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way
yourself once in a while.

                Josh Billings (1815-1885)
@@
A torn jacket is soon mended;
but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

                   Longfellow (1819-1892)
@@
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were
born in another time.

                          Chinese Proverb
@@
The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children
they are heaven's lieutenants.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry
is like a potato, - the only good belonging to him is underground.

              Thomas Overbury (1581-1613)
@@
Behold the child, by nature's kindly law,
pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

                         Pope (1688-1744)
@@
Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My Mother.

                  Anne Taylor (1782-1866)
@@
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall;
a mother's secret hope outlives them all!

        Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
@@
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he
had learned in seven years.

                   Mark Twain (1835-1910)
@@
The bravest battle that ever was fought;
 Shall I tell you where and when?
On the maps of the world you will find it not;
 It was fought by the mothers of men.

               Joaquin Miller (1839-1913)
@@
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton,
you may as well make it dance.

                   G. B. Shaw (1856-1950)
@@
Children begin by loving their parents.
After a time they judge them.
Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

                  Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
@@
If I were hanged on the highest hill,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
I know whose love would follow me still
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

                      Kipling (1865-1936)
@@
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what
parents were created for.

                   Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
@@
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

                           Jewish Proverb
@@
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

                          Spanish Proverb
@@
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say
to himself, "I shall to-day be uppermost."

                 Confucius (B.C. 551-479)
@@
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are;
the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

                     Zeno (B.C. 335?-264)
@@
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
Fortune is a shadow upon a wall.

             Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)
@@
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves;
we are underlings.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
The wheel goes round and round,
And some are up and some are on the down,
And still the wheel goes round.

            Josephine Pollard (1843-1892)
@@
Luck is tenacity of purpose.

               Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915)
@@
Throw a lucky man into the sea,
and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

                          Arabian Proverb
@@
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing
of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches
of the mind.

                Anacharsis (fl. B.C. 600)
@@
Birth goes with death.  Fortune goes with misfortune.
Bad things follow good things.  Men should realize these.
Foolish people dread misfortune and strive after good fortune,
but those who seek Enlightenment must transcend both of them
and be free of the worldly attachments.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
@@
Fortune is never permanently...adverse or favorable;
one sees her veering from one mood to the other.

                      Herod I (B.C. 73-4)
@@
The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

                    Martial (43-104 A.D.)
@@
That which is not allotted - the hand cannot reach,
and what is allotted - will find you wherever you may be.

                        Saadi (1184-1291)
@@
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good Fortune deceived
not.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
                      Moliere (1622-1673)
@@
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for
the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

                        Swift (1667-1745)
@@
Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born;
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.

                William Blake (1757-1828)
@@
It sounds like stories from the land of spirits,
If any man obtain that which he merits,
Or any merit that which he obtains.

             Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834)
@@
Destiny has two ways of crushing us -
by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

         Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
@@
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from
the west;  they originate within one's own mind.
Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the
external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
@@
No man has perpetual good fortune.

                   Plautus (B.C. 254-184)
@@
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the
same time.

                   Livy (B.C. 59-17 A.D.)
@@
Fortune is brittle as glass, and when she is most refulgent,she
is often most unexpectedly broken.

            Publilius Syrus (fl. B.C. 42)
@@
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

                    Juvenal (40-125 A.D.)
@@
This body, full of faults,
Has yet one great quality:
Whatever it encounters in this temporal life
Depends upon one's actions.

              Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.)
@@
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will
be.

           Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.)
@@
The Moving Finger writes; and having writ,
Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

                  Omar Khayyam (fl. 1100)
@@
He who owes least to fortune is in the strongest position.

                  Machiavelli (1469-1527)
@@
Fortune is a woman, and therefore friendly to the young, who with
audacity command her.

                  Machiavelli (1469-1527)
@@
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay
a little, the price will fall.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
Men at some time are masters of their fates.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
Every one is the architect of his own fortune.

             Mathurin Regnier (1573-1613)
@@
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate.

                         Pope (1688-1744)
@@
He that waits upon Fortune, is never sure of a Dinner.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
Human life is more governed by fortune than by reason.

                   David Hume (1711-1776)
@@
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

                    Goldsmith (1728-1774)
@@
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions,
when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
There is no such thing as chance;
and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source
of destiny.

                     Schiller (1759-1805)
@@
Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift
of few.

                Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
@@
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

                 Euripides (B.C. 480-406)
@@
Happy the man who can endure the highest
  and the lowest fortune.
He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity,
  has deprived misfortune of its power.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is
for the good of that man at that time.

           Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.)
@@
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky;
which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving
light together:  so it is a number of little and scarce
discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs,
that make men fortunate.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how
to correct.
             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very
lap of fortune:  for our faculties then undergo a development
and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his
defects and makes up for his failings.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe
The fate of many.

                      Homer (c. B.C. 700)
@@
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

                 Sophocles (B.C. 495-406)
@@
A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery,
imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant,
whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

                  Epicurus (B.C. 341-270)
@@
When fortune favors a man too much, she makes him a fool.

            Publilius Syrus (fl. B.C. 42)
@@
Whatever fortune has raised to a height,
she has raised only to cast it down.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with
a greater fall.

              Claudianus (365?-408? A.D.)
@@
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions,
they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
Chance is a word void of sense;
nothing can exist without a cause.

                     Voltaire (1694-1778)
@@
Fortune! There is no fortune;
all is trial, or punishment, or recompense, or foresight.

                     Voltaire (1694-1778)
@@
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

                     Rousseau (1712-1778)
@@
Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune
and a last day.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
Destiny - A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for
failure.

              Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
@@
Diseases are often cured
Never fate.

                          Chinese Proverb
@@
See that prosperity elate not thine heart above measure;
neither depress thy mind unto the depths, because fortune beareth
hard against thee. Her smiles are not stable, therefore build not
thy confidence upon them; her frowns endureth not forever,
therefore let hope teach thee patience

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
Great progress and success can be realized.  But spring does
not last forever, and the favorable trend will reverse itself
in due time.  The wise man foresees evil and handles its
threat accordingly.

                     I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
@@
People naturally fear misfortune and long for good fortune,
but if the distinction is carefully studied, misfortune often
turns out to be good fortune and good fortune to be misfortune.
The wise man learns to meet the changing circumstances of life
with an equitable spirit, being neither elated by success nor
depressed by failure.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
@@
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

                 Sophocles (B.C. 495-406)
@@
Persevere:  It is fitting, for a better fate
awaits the afflicted.

                      Vergil (B.C. 70-19)
@@
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

                       Horace (B.C. 65-8)
@@
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast;
in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

                   Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.)
@@
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

            Publilius Syrus (fl. B.C. 42)
@@
We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
If fortune favors you do not be elated;
if she frowns do not despond.

                  Ausonius (310-395 A.D.)
@@

'Tis writ on Paradise's gate
"Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!"

                      Hafiz (1325?-1390?)
@@
If a man look sharply and attentively,
he shall see Fortune:  for though she be blind,
yet she is not invisible.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
What fates impose, that men must needs abide;
It boots not to resist both wind and tide.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
There is tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood,
leads on to fortune;  omitted, all the voyage of their life
is bound in shallows and in miseries; on such a full sea we are
now afloat; and we must take the current when it serves,
or lose our ventures.
                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
Whether in favor or in humiliation, be not dismayed.
Let your eyes leisurely look at the flowers blooming and falling
in your courtyard.
Whether you leave or retain your position, take no care.
Let your mind wander with the clouds folding and unfolding beyond
the horizon.

              Hung Tzu-ch'eng (1593-1665)
@@
We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when
good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies
except in an extreme necessity.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
It is a madness to make Fortune the mistress of events, because
in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by Prudence.

                       Dryden (1631-1700)
@@
Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
Chance generally favors the prudent.

                      Joubert (1754-1824)
@@
Intellect annuls fate.
So far as a man thinks, he is free.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
No living man can send me to the shades
Before my time; no man of woman born,
Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

                      Homer (c. B.C. 700)
@@
Death and life have their determined appointments;
riches and honors depend upon heaven.

                 Confucius (B.C. 551-479)
@@
Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

                      Vergil (B.C. 70-19)
@@
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds;
High towers fall with a heavier crash;
And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

                       Horace (B.C. 65-8)
@@
Two fates still hold us fast,
A future and a past;
Two vessels' vast embrace
Surrounds us - Time and Space.
Whenever we ask what end
Our Maker did intend,
Some answering voice is heard
That utters no plain word.

                  Ma'Arri (973-1057 A.D.)
@@
The bad fortune of the good
  turns their faces up to heaven;
the good fortune of the bad
  bows their heads down to the earth.

                        Saadi (1184-1291)
@@
Fortune, the great commandress of the world,
Hath divers ways to advance her followers:
To some she gives honor without deserving;
To other some, deserving without honor;
Some wit, some wealth, - and some, wit without wealth;
Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.

               George Chapman (1557-1634)
@@
Will Fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
She either gives a stomach, and no food;
Such are the poor, in health: or else a feast,
And takes away the stomach; such are the rich,
That have abundance, and enjoy it not.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
'Tis Fate that flings the dice,
And as she flings
Of kings makes peasants,
And of peasants kings.

                       Dryden (1631-1700)
@@
But blind to former as to future fate,
What mortal knows his pre-existent state?

                         Pope (1688-1744)
@@
Fate steals along with silent tread,
Found oftenest in what least we dread;
Frowns in the storm with angry brow,
But in the sunshine strikes the blow.

                       Cowper (1731-1800)
@@
All are architects of Fate,
Working in these walls of Time;
Some with massive deeds and great,
Some with ornaments of rhyme.

                   Longfellow (1819-1892)
@@
The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day.
The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse
from the flour.  The hand of fate guides the wheel;
the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation

              H. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891)
@@
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good
many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear
her.

                   Mark Twain (1835-1910)
@@
I do not know beneath what sky
  Nor on what seas shall be thy fate;
I only know it shall be high,
  I only know it shall be great.

                Richard Hovey (1869-1900)
@@
He either fears his fate too much,
  Or his deserts are small,
That dares not put it to the touch
  To gain or lose it all.

               Donald Marquis (1878-1937)
@@
Fear makes men believe the worst.

             Curtius-Rufus (fl. 100 A.D.)
@@
Worry, the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

            George Washington (1732-1799)
@@
What are fears but voices airy?
Whispering harm where harm is not.
And deluding the unwary
Til the fatal bolt is shot!

                   Wordsworth (1770-1850)
@@
Fear always springs from ignorance.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
A panic is sudden desertion of us,
and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

                        Bovee (1820-1904)
@@
Favour and disgrace are like fear.
Favour is in a higher place,
and disgrace in a lower place.
When you win them you are like being in fear,
and when you lose them you are also like being in fear.
So favour and disgrace are like fear.

                   Lao-Tzu (fl. B.C. 600)
@@
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

            Publilius Syrus (fl. B.C. 42)
@@
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the
better of another, the worse of himself.

                Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
@@
To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives in your
weakness strength unto your foe.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
He that fears you present, will hate you absent.

                Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
@@
From a distance it is something;
and nearby it is nothing.

                  La Fontaine (1621-1695)
@@
The man who fears nothing is not less powerful than he who is feared
by every one.

                     Schiller (1759-1805)
@@
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

                   Plato (B.C. 427?-347?)
@@
No one loves the man whom he fears.

                 Aristotle (B.C. 384-322)
@@
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

                   Livy (B.C. 59-17 A.D.)
@@
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

                   Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.)
@@
For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the
fear of death and hardship.

                  Epictetus (50-138 A.D.)
@@
Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

                    Tacitus (55-117 A.D.)
@@
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

                Lactantius (260-340 A.D.)
@@
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
We often pretend to fear what we really despise,
and more often despise what we really fear.

                       Colton (1780-1832)
@@
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or
fear.  Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

                        Bovee (1820-1904)
@@
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine
out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

                      Lubbock (1834-1913)
@@
Fear is the mother of morality.
                    Nietzsche (1844-1900)
@@
Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from
a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger
portion of fear than they should.

             Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
@@
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

        Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
@@
I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about
his health, or a really good person who worried much about his
own soul.

                      Haldane (1892-1964)
@@
Fear comes from uncertainty.  When we are absolutely certain,
whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious
to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source
of courage.

                  Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
@@
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

            Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
@@
Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil;
but its duty, like that of other passions,
is not to overbear reason, but to assist it.
It should not be suffered to tyrannize
in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror,
or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.

                      Johnson (1709-1784)
@@
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

                        Burke (1729-1797)
@@
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined
by too confident a security.

                        Burke (1729-1797)
@@
Fear is the mother of foresight.

                 Henry Taylor (1800-1886)
@@
Good men have the fewest fears.
He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong;
he has a thousand who has overcome it.

                        Bovee (1820-1904)
@@
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

                Edgar W. Howe (1853-1937)
@@
As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth
his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
In extreme danger fear feels no pity.

              Julius Caesar (B.C. 102-44)
@@
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

                      Vergil (B.C. 70-19)
@@
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

                    Montaigne (1533-1592)
@@
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

                     Voltaire (1694-1778)
@@
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness;
in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism.
Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of
all evil.

                 Anna Jameson (1794-1860)
@@
Worry - A god, invisible but omnipotent.
It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse;
it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

                     Disraeli (1804-1881)
@@
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows,
but only empties today of its strength.

             Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)
@@
Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay
ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza,
diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague,
then fear is the great black plague.

               Gilbert Murray (1866-1957)
@@
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

             Jawaharial Nehru (1889-1964)
@@
Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings,
loses all fear.

                 Upanishads (c. B.C. 800)
@@
Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes
regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction
happens to his body and soul.

               Zoroaster (B.C. 628?-551?)
@@
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one.
Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
@@
Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious
for itself.  Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

                 Jesus (B.C. 6?-30? A.D.)
@@
An anthill increases by accumulation.
Medicine is consumed by distribution.
That which is feared lessens by association.
This is the thing to understand.

              Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.)
@@
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never
beginning to live.

           Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.)
@@
What is not to be, will not be; if it is to be, it cannot
be otherwise;  why do you not drink this antidote that
destroys the poison of care?

         The Hitopadesa (600?-1100? A.D.)
@@
Nothing is to be feared but fear.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
Things without remedy, should be without regard;
what is done, is done.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent;
be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat;
it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than
to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.

                      Quarles (1592-1644)
@@
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
They can conquer who believe they can.  He has not learned the
first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

             Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931)
@@
When one is in fear he should appear to be fearless.
One should seem to be trustful while really mistrusting others.
Such a man is never ruined.

                    Sivananda (born 1887)
@@
He who knows Self as the enjoyer of
The honey from the flowers of the senses,
Ever present within, ruler of time,
Goes beyond fear.  For this Self is Supreme!

                 Upanishads (c. B.C. 800)
@@
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil,
one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings;
when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free
of fear.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
@@
I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards
thy den, and none returning.

                       Horace (B.C. 65-8)
@@
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
What will come when it will come.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul,
freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start
from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And
each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful
porcupine.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
Huge and mighty forms that do not live
Like living men, moved slowly through the mind
By day, and were a trouble to my dreams.

                   Wordsworth (1770-1850)
@@
Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round, walks on.
And turns once more his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.

             Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834)
@@
Fear at my heart, as at a cup, My life-blood seemed to sip!

             Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834)
@@
Oh, fear not in a world like this,
And thou shalt know ere long,
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.

                   Longfellow (1819-1892)
@@
I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.

                A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
@@
Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star.

                 Confucius (B.C. 551-479)
@@
Not to understand what is good and bad,
Not to remember a kindness one has received,
Not to marvel at what one has clearly perceived-
These are the characteristics of a foolish man.

               Saskya Pandita (1182-1251)
@@
Folly is wisdom spun too fine.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
A fool may be known by six things:
anger, without cause; speech, without profit;
change, without progress;  inquiry without object;
putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.

                          Arabian Proverb
@@
The fool is not always unfortunate,
nor the wise man always successful;
yet never has a fool thorough enjoyment;
never was a wise man wholly unhappy.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
@@
When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and
improve his conduct.  When his misconduct is pointed out,
a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but
rather repeat the same error.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
@@
If a fool be associated with a wise man even all his life, he will
perceive the truth as little as a spoon perceives the taste
of soup.
If an intelligent man be associated for only one minute with a
wise man, he will soon perceive the truth, as the tongue perceives
the taste of soup.

             The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 300)
@@
Those who wish to appear wise among fools,
among the wise seem foolish.

                  Quintilian (35-90 A.D.)
@@
The foolish are like ripples on water,
For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced;
But the righteous are like carvings upon stone,
For their smallest act is durable.

              Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.)
@@
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

                    Montaigne (1533-1592)
@@
Young men think old men are fools;
but old men know young men are fools.

               George Chapman (1557-1634)
@@
The fool doth think he is wise,
but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
@@
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.

                      Moliere (1622-1673)
@@
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

                 Robert South (1634-1716)
@@
There are more fools than wise men;
and even in wise men, more folly than wisdom.

                     Chamfort (1741-1794)
@@
There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance
may not set it to rights;  nothing so rational,
that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
The wise man has his follies no less than the fool;
  but herein lies the difference -
The follies of the fool are known to the world,
  but are hidden from himself;
The follies of the wise man are known to himself,
  but hidden from the world.

                       Colton (1780-1832)
@@
What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.

                          Spanish Proverb
@@
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.

               Proverbs (B.C. 1000?-200?)
@@
There is a foolish corner even in the brain of the sage.

                 Aristotle (B.C. 384-322)
@@
It is the characteristic of folly to discern the faults of others
and forget its own.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
Who are a little wise the best fools be.

                   John Donne (1572-1632)
@@
He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
@@
A fool can ask more questions than the wisest can answer.

                        Swift (1667-1745)
@@
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

                     Voltaire (1694-1778)
@@
The first degree of folly is to conceit one's self wise;
the second to profess it;  the third to despise counsel.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
There is nothing by which men display their character so much
as in what they consider ridiculous...
Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the
half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

                      Hazlitt (1778-1830)
@@
Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.

                        Byron (1788-1824)
@@
There are many more fools in the world than there are knaves, otherwise
the knaves could not exist.

                Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
@@
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly
is to fill the world with fools.

             Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) 
@@
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish
thing.

               Anatole France (1844-1924)
@@
It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

                       Horace (B.C. 65-8)
@@
The folly of one man is the fortune of another;
for no man prospers so suddenly as by others' errors.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
@@
Silence is the wit of fools.

                   La Bruyere (1645-1696)
@@
The fool is happy that he knows no more.

                         Pope (1688-1744)
@@
The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

                  Vauvenargues(1715-1747)
@@
Thou Graybeard, old Wisdom, mayst boast of thy treasures;
 Give me with young Folly to live;
I grant thee thy calm-blooded, time-settled pleasures;
 But Folly has raptures to give.

                 Robert Burns (1759-1796)
@@
Let us be thankful for the fools.
But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

                   Mark Twain (1835-1910)
@@
Greed, lust, fear, anger, misfortune, unhappiness, all are
derived from foolishness.
Thus, foolishness is the greatest of poisons.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
@@
Ignorance, the product of darkness, stupefies the senses in
all embodied beings, binding them by the chains of folly,
indolence and lethargy.

              Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
@@
A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense
at everything.

                 Aristotle (B.C. 384-322)
@@
The fool who knows his foolishness, is wise at least so far.
But a fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed.

             The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 300)
@@
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
In other living creatures ignorance of self is nature;
in man it is vice.

                      Boethius (480?-524)
@@
Alas!
we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of
the great.

                  La Fontaine (1621-1695)
@@
Want and sorrow are the wages that folly earns for itself, and
they are generally paid.

           Christian Schubart (1739-1791)
@@
Of all thieves fools are the worst;
they rob you of time and temper.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

                      Carlyle (1795-1881)
@@
None but a fool is always right.

                 Hare & Charles (c. 1830)
@@
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

            Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
@@
Those who identify themselves with the body and have no soul-consciousness,
are utterly ignorant, though they may possess University degrees.
Man speaks of his glory and achievements.
It is all vanity. At the bottom of it all are sex, food,
indolence and ignorance.

                    Sivananda (born 1887)
@@
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

                Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)
@@
He's a Fool that cannot conceal his Wisdom.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
@@
I am always afraid of a fool;
one cannot be sure he is not a knave.

                      Hazlitt (1778-1830)
@@
It is a great piece of folly to sacrifice the inner for the outer
man.

                 Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
@@
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions

         Charles P. Steinmetz (1865-1923)
@@
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even
fools are right sometimes.

            Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
@@
He who through the error of attachment loves his body, abides
wandering in darkness, sensible and suffering the things of
death, but he who realizes that the body is but the tomb of his
soul, rises to immortality.

   The Divine Pymander (BC 2500?-200 AD?)
@@
What lies beyond life shines not to those who are childish, or
careless, or deluded by wealth.  "This is the only world:
there is no other," they say; and thus they go from death to death.

                 Upanishads (c. B.C. 800)
@@
"These sons belong to me, and this wealth belongs to me";
with such thoughts a fool is tormented.  He himself does not 
belong to himself; how much less sons and wealth?

             The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 300)
@@
For take thy balance if thou be so wise
And weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow;
Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise;
Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.

               Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
@@
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric
of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill
of art is not able to make an oyster!

                Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)
@@
A fool always finds some greater fool to admire him.

             Nicholas Boileau (1636-1711)
@@
Exactness is the sublimity of fools.

                   Fontenelle (1657-1757)
@@
A fool and his words are soon parted;
a man of genius and his money.

            William Shenstone (1714-1763)
@@
What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere
but where he lives.

                      Thoreau (1817-1862)
@@
Young people tell what they are doing,
old people what they have done
and fools what they wish to do.
                           French Proverb
@@
No man is free who cannot command himself.

                Pythagoras (B.C. 582-507)
@@
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted
by the law.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
Who then is free?
The wise man who can command himself.

                       Horace (B.C. 65-8)
@@
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

                  Epictetus (50-138 A.D.)
@@
Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is,
when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

                     Voltaire (1694-1778)
@@
The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

                  Albert Pike (1809-1891)
@@
Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

                 Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
@@
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

               Mortimer Adler (born 1902)
@@
Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

                     Rousseau (1712-1778)
@@
None are more hopelessly enslaved
than those who falsely believe they are free.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
@@
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which
the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf
denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.

                      Lincoln (1809-1865)
@@
Freedom is the ferment of freedom.
The moistened sponge drinks up water greedily;
the dry one sheds it.

        Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
@@
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical
with true freedom.

                William James (1842-1910)
@@
Liberty has restraints but not frontiers.

                 Lloyd George (1863-1945)
@@
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to
die for the liberty of the world who will not make the
little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves
from their own individual bondage.

                 Bruce Barton (1886-1967)
@@
No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time
saddled with a responsibility.

            Gerald W. Johnson (born 1890)
@@
Communism destroys democracy.
Democracy can also destroy Communism.

                Andre Malraux (1901-1976)
@@
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to
do than in what we are free not to do.

                  Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
@@
We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before
we can introduce freedom in involvement.

      Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (born 1916)
@@
The secret of Happiness is Freedom,
and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

                Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
@@
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal
in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

                 Aristotle (B.C. 384-322)
@@
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance,
to any constraint, to any chance;
it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
@@
Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

                     Persius (34-62 A.D.)
@@
Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

                    Tacitus (55-117 A.D.)
@@
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its
own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

                      Spinoza (1632-1677)
@@
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

                     Voltaire (1694-1778)
@@
A country cannot subsist well without liberty,
nor liberty without virtue.

                     Rousseau (1712-1778)
@@
Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

                        Burke (1729-1797)
@@
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,
and all are slaves beside.

                       Cowper (1731-1800)
@@
Liberty, according to my metaphysics...
is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent.
It implies thought and choice and power.

                   John Adams (1735-1826)
@@
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of
the world are put in peril.

             William Garrison (1805-1879)
@@
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our
own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive
others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

             John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
@@
Freedom exists only where people take care of the government.

               Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
@@
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred;
it is a habit to be acquired.

                 Lloyd George (1863-1945)
@@
Democracy is the worst system devised by the wit of man, except
for all the others.

            Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
@@
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work
and in that work does what he wants to do.

         Robin G. Collingwood (1889-1943)
@@
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate
each other.

                  Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
@@
Democracy is a process, not a static condition.  It is becoming,
rather than being.  It can easily be lost, but never is fully won.
Its essence is eternal struggle.

            William H. Hastie (1904-1976)
@@
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation,
free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

              Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
@@
In the light of his vision he has found his freedom:
his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

             The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 300)
@@
What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not
only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and
to be preferred to all things.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
@@
Freedom all solace to man gives:
He lives at ease that freely lives.

                 John Barbour (1320-1395)
@@
Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed
on man;
with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains
or the sea conceals;  for liberty, as for honor, we can and
ought to risk our lives; and, on the other hand, captivity
is the greatest evil that can befall man.

                    Cervantes (1547-1616)
@@
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile,
but as they are free.

                  Montesquieu (1689-1755)
@@
Freedom hath a thousand charms to show,
That slaves however contented never know.

                       Cowper (1731-1800)
@@
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

            George Washington (1732-1799)
@@
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce
as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

                Patrick Henry (1736-1799)
@@
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,
and to serve them one's self?

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
@@
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

                      Lincoln (1809-1865)
@@
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - 
what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

          Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899)
@@
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight
of the human spirit and human dignity.

               Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)
@@
There are two good things in life - 
freedom of thought and freedom of action.

             Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
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No nation ancient of modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking,
writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost
their liberty in general and became slaves.

            John Peter Zenger (1697-1746)
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Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

                     Franklin (1706-1790)
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue?
It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,
and madness, without tuition or restraint.

                        Burke (1729-1797)
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men,
undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

                        Paine (1737-1809)
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The wish to be independent of all men, and not to be under obligation
to any one is the sure sign of a soul without tenderness.

                      Joubert (1754-1824)
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Liberty is slow fruit.  It is never cheap;
it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment
and perfectness of man.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
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The man who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made
to be a slave.

        Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-1859)
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The policy of Russia is changeless...  Its methods,
its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar
star of its policy - world domination - is a fixed star.
                    Karl Marx (1818-1883)
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Not free from what, but free for what?

                    Nietzsche (1844-1900)
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Liberty means responsibility.
That is why most men dread it.

                   G. B. Shaw (1856-1950)
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its
freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort
or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

             Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from
ambush.  It will be a slow extinction from apathy,
indifference, and undernourishment.

      Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977)
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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization
of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it
is committed to making tyranny universal.

           Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965)
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into
the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

             Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
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...while they (Communists) preach the supremacy of the state and
predict its eventual domination of all peoples on Earth, they
are the focus of evil in the modern world...

                Ronald Reagan (born 1911)
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage
to defend it.

                  Pericles (B.C. 495-429)
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Men well governed should seek after no other liberty,
for there can be no greater liberty than a good government.

               Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
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Free people, remember this maxim:  We may acquire liberty,
but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

                     Rousseau (1712-1778)
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Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate,
independence;  without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

                       Junius (1740-1818)
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Our liberty depends on freedom of the press,
and that cannot be limited without being lost.

             Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
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Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence;
  The last result of wisdom stamps it true;
He only earns his freedom and existence
  Who daily conquers them anew.

                       Goethe (1749-1832)
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Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation
blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion
to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth.

            John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
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Liberty will not descend to a people;
a people must raise themselves to liberty;
it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

                       Colton (1780-1832)
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Whoever will be free must make himself free.
Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap.
What is freedom?
To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

                  Max Stirner (1806-1856)
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting
the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.

              Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

               Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
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If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands,
they must be made brighter in our own...If in other lands the
eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance,
we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation.

        Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
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By All Resources Realize Yourself...
Fetters fall off of themselves
when the knowledge of self is gained.

            A. L. Linall, Jr. (born 1947)
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The saving man becomes the free man.

                          Chinese Proverb
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Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when
one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal
and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

             The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 300)
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In the freedom of the Infinite he is free from all sorrows, the
fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever
of life is no more.

                    Tacitus (55-117 A.D.)
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Such being the happiness of the times,
that you may think as you wish,
and speak as you think.

                 Henry Wotton (1568-1639)
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How happy is he born and taught,
  That serveth not another's will;
Whose armour is his honest thought,
  And simple truth his utmost skill!

             Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)
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If I have freedom in my love,
  And in my soul am free,-
Angels alone that soar above,
  Enjoy such liberty.

                       Dryden (1631-1700)
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I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

                  Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
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Liberty is to the collective body,
what health is to every individual body.
Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man;
without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

             Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the
blood of patriots and tyrants.  It is its natural manure.

                   Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold?
 Because the lovely little flower is free
Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

                 Joseph Drake (1795-1820)
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When Freedom from her mountain height
  Unfurled her standard to the air.
She tore the azure robe of night,
  And set the stars of glory there.

              Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
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Of old sat Freedom on the heights
  The thunders breaking at her feet:
Above her shook the starry lights;
 She heard the torrents meet.

                      Thoreau (1817-1862)
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.

                   Longfellow (1819-1892)
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His brow is wet with honest sweat
  He earns what'er he can, And
looks the whole world in the face,
  For he owes not any man.

              Herman Melville (1819-1891)
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We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

                   Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country
we have those three unspeakably precious things:
freedom of speech, freedom of conscience,
and the prudence never to practice either.

                      Kipling (1865-1936)
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All we have of freedom - all we use or know -
This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

                 Aristotle (B.C. 384-322)
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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

                   Plautus (B.C. 254-184)
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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

                        Byron (1788-1824)
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Friendship is Love without his wings!

                       Bias (fl B.C. 600)
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It is better to decide between our enemies than our friends;
for one of our friends will most likely become our enemy;
but on the other hand, one of your enemies
will probably become your friend.

                 Aristotle (B.C. 384-322)
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He who hath many friends, hath none.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
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To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship.

               Saskya Pandita (1182-1251)
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It may be doubtful, at first,
Whether a person is an enemy or friend.
Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison;
But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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Words are easy, like the wind;
Faithful friends are hard to find.

                      Quarles (1592-1644)
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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun
for an end.

                      Joubert (1754-1824)
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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

                      Richter (1763-1825)
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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also.
He attracts and follows.

          Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but
the best of our nature.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy
between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying
to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
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Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness
of which all mankind are agreed.

                   Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.)
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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship
must be seen in adversity.

                  Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
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Friendship always benefits;
love sometimes injures.

         The Hitopadesa (600?-1100? A.D.)
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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors.
With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.
                Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never
happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

                  La Fontaine (1621-1695)
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

                      Moliere (1622-1673)
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them;
is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

                   La Bruyere (1645-1696)
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each
other's little failings.

                   Nahum Tate (1652-1715)
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Friendship's the privilege of private men;
for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

            George Washington (1732-1799)
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand
the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
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The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies,
cold friends, cold enemies;  half friends, half enemies;
fervid enemies, warm friends.

                      Lavater (1741-1801)
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True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom
known until it be lost.

                       Colton (1780-1832)
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The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do
without it.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

                      Thoreau (1817-1862)
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we
walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into
the shade.

                        Bovee (1820-1904)
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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with
the part of another;  people are friends in spots.

             George Santayana (1863-1952)
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Secret forces are bringing compatible spirits together.
If the man permits himself to be led by this ineffable attraction,
good fortune will come his way.
When deep friendships exist, formalities and elaborate preparations
are not necessary.

                     I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

                 Euripides (B.C. 480-406)
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There is nought better than to be
With noble souls in company:
There is nought dearer than to wend
With good friends faithful to the end.
This is the love whose fruit is sweet;
Therefore to bide therein is meet.

                Mahabharata (c. B.C. 400)
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It is not so much our friends' help that helps as the confidence
of their help.

                  Epicurus (B.C. 341-270)
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling
of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening,
which increases with the setting sun of life.

                  La Fontaine (1621-1695)
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Poor is the friendless master of a world;
a world in purchase of a friend is gain.
                        Young (1683-1765)
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Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven,
  The noble mind's delight and pride,
To men and angels only given,
  To all the lower world denied.

                      Johnson (1709-1784)
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

                      Emerson (1803-1882)
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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

               Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
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With true friends...even water drunk together is sweet enough.

                          Chinese Proverb
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The joys that spring from external associations bring pain;
they have their beginnings and their endings.
The wise man does not rejoice in them.

              Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not
how many friends.

                     Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
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He who pursues people for what they can give,
And yet pays no heed to those who have offered much,
Is like the man who thinks only of the butter to come,
And pays no heed to what has already been churned.

              Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.)
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Friends are thieves of time.

                        Bacon (1561-1626)
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He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.

                  Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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Whenever Fortune sends Disasters to our
Dearest Friends, Although we outwardly may grieve,
We oft are laughing in our sleeve.

             La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

               Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
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Nothing more dangerous than a friend without discretion;
even a prudent enemy is preferable.

                  La Fontaine (1621-1695)
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If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be
four friends in the world.

                       Pascal (1623-1662)
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An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse.

                          Gay (1688-1732)
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The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay,
or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for
complaint, and too numerous for removal.

                      Johnson (1709-1784)
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Give me the avowed, the erect, and manly foe, Bold I can meet,
perhaps may turn the blow;
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save,
oh save me from the candid friend!

               George Canning (1770-1827)
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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

                      Hazlitt (1778-1830)
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Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their
friendship; and when they hear us praised by others will
ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

                       Colton (1780-1832)
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Rely on your own Self, your own inner spiritual strength.
Stand on your own feet.  Do not depend on money,
friends or any one.  When the friends are put to test,
they will desert you.
                    Sivananda (born 1887)
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People become friends and enemies from consideration of gain and
loss.  Self-interest plays a very prominent part.  Self-interest
is very powerful.  It can turn a friend into an enemy in no
time and an enemy also into a friend.
There is no such thing in existence as a friend or an enemy.

                    Sivananda (born 1887)
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Friendship of officials...
Thin as their papers.

                          Chinese Proverb
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Expect not a friendship with him who hath injured thee:
he who suffereth the wrong, may forgive it;
but he who doth it never will it be well with him.

                Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other
to persevere in the road to a happier life.

                Pythagoras (B.C. 582-507)
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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes
evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

                    Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
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Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

                     Chilo (fl. B.C. 560)
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Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

                 Confucius (B.C. 551-479)
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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

         The Talmud (B.C. 500?-400? A.D.)
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Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

                  Socrates (B.C. 469-399)
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Do not have evil-doers for friends,
  do not have low people for friends:
have virtuous people for friends,
  have for friends the best of men.

             The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 300)
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Foresake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto
him.  A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou
shalt drink it with pleasure.

               Ecclesiasticus (B.C. 200?)
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