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    John Milton
    “Where glowing embers through the room
    Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...”
    ― John Milton, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas
    tags: darkness, light, metaphor, paradox
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #8
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: inspirational, religion
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    John Milton
    “Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: darkness, light, struggle
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    John Milton
    “A mind not to be changed by place or time.
    The mind is its own place, and in itself
    Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
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    John Milton
    “Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.”
    ― John Milton, Comus
    tags: freedom, freedom-of-thought
    231 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Albert Camus
    “Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: albert-camus, lecture, philosophy, sleep
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    ― William Shakespear, Hamlet
    tags: philosophy
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    William Shakespeare
    “Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Richard III
    tags: insanity, women
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  • #23
    William Shakespeare
    “Expectation is the root of all heartache.”
    ― William Shakespeare
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  • #24
    William Shakespeare
    “Listen to many, speak to a few.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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    William Shakespeare
    “Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: shakespeare
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    Émile Zola
    “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
    ― Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise
    tags: boredom, misattributed-vincent-van-gogh, passion
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Youth is wasted on the young.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: dance, dancing, definition, innuendo, sex, widely-misattributed, wordplay
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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  • #30
    George Bernard Shaw
    “The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: food, vegetarianism
    182 likes



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