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    John Milton
    “What hath night to do with sleep?”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: night, paradise-lost, sleep
    1887 likes

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    John Milton
    “Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    1493 likes

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    John Milton
    “Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: inspirational, lucifer, rebellion, revolt, satan
    615 likes

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    John Milton
    “Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: devil, lucifer, satan
    363 likes

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    John Milton
    “Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.”
    ― John Milton
    350 likes

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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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    “Last time I asked: 'What does mathematics mean to you?', and some people answered: "The manipulation of numbers, the manipulation of structures.' And if I had asked what music means to you, would you have answered: 'The manipulation of notes?”
    ― Serge Lang, The Beauty of Doing Mathematics: Three Public Dialogues
    tags: beauty, mathematics
    18 likes

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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
    15486 likes

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    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
    3959 likes

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  • #10
    Socrates
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: philosophy
    2192 likes

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  • #11
    Socrates
    “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder
    2019 likes

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  • #12
    Socrates
    “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: gossip
    2065 likes

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  • #13
    Socrates
    “To find yourself, think for yourself.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: independence, self-reliance
    1720 likes

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  • #14
    Socrates
    “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: education, enlightenment, learning, lifelong-learning, mentorship
    1595 likes

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  • #15
    Socrates
    “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: marriage
    1346 likes

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    Socrates
    “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: avarice, contentment, gluttony, greed
    1331 likes

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  • #17
    Socrates
    “Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: friendship
    1169 likes

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  • #18
    Socrates
    “Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
    ― Socrates
    1156 likes

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  • #19
    Socrates
    “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
    ― Socrates
    799 likes

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  • #20
    Socrates
    “Know thyself.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspirational
    728 likes

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  • #21
    Socrates
    “Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: change, self-determination, self-development
    693 likes

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  • #22
    Socrates
    “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspirational, reading, wisdom
    581 likes

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    Confucius
    “If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: inspirational, mistake
    2100 likes

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  • #24
    “Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.'' James Thurber”
    ― Mateo Tabatabai, The Mind-Made Prison: Overcoming Limiting Beliefs and Manifesting Personal Transformation
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    “When you create the rules of the game, it is very easy to win.” —Mateo Tabatabai”
    ― Mateo Tabatabai, The Mind-Made Prison: Overcoming Limiting Beliefs and Manifesting Personal Transformation
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130117 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
    127092 likes

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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
    119046 likes

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  • #29
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114358 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
    101566 likes



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