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    Alexander Pope
    “Whatever is, is right.”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man
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    Gertrude Stein
    “One must dare to be happy. ”
    ― Gertrude Stein
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    Samuel Johnson
    “It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.”
    ― Samuel Johnson
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
    tags: comedy, life, yourself
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    Sherman Alexie
    “He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”
    ― Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World
    tags: choice, love
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    Philip Sidney
    “...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.”
    ― Sir Philip Sidney, A Defence of Poetry
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    Julian of Norwich
    “God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.”
    ― Julian of Norwich
    tags: love, spirituality
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    Julian of Norwich
    “God is everything that is good, she writes. All life’s pleasures and comforts are sacramental; they are God’s hands touching us.”
    ― Julian of Norwich, All Shall Be Well: A Modern-Language Version of the Revelation of Julian of Norwich
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    Thomas Browne
    “Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.”
    ― Sir Thomas Browne
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    Thomas Browne
    “We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases”
    ― Sir Thomas Browne
    tags: beautiful, cure, dark, death, diseases, holly-black, labor, reality-check, the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown, thomas-brown
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    Thomas Browne
    “We carry within us the wonders we seek around us”
    ― Sir Thomas Browne
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    Thomas Hobbes
    “Leisure is the mother of Philosophy”
    ― Thomas Hobbes
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    Thomas Hobbes
    “The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.”
    ― Thomas Hobbes
    tags: nature, peace
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    Thomas Hobbes
    “A great leap in the dark”
    ― Thomas Hobbes
    tags: final-words, last-words
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    Thomas Hobbes
    “Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason”
    ― Hobbes Thomas, The ethics of Hobbes
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    Samuel Johnson
    “Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
    ― Samuel Johnson, Lives of the poets: Milton
    tags: pleasure, poetry, symbiosis, truth
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    Samuel Johnson
    “Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.”
    ― Samuel Johnson
    tags: wisdom
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    Samuel Johnson
    “Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.”
    ― Samuel Johnson
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    Alexander Pope
    “To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
    tags: failure, forgiveness, humanity, mistakes
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    Alexander Pope
    “A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: knowledge, misattributed-to-einstein, misquote, misquoted
    713 likes

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    Alexander Pope
    “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope
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    Alexander Pope
    “All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
    All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
    All discord, harmony not understood;
    All partial evil, universal good.
    And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,
    One truth is clear, 'Whatever is, is right.”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man
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    Samuel Johnson
    “Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”
    ― Samuel Johnson
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    H.L. Mencken
    “An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques
    tags: cabbage, cooking, fragrance, humor, idealism, metaphors, perfume, roses, similes
    473 likes

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    Alexander Pope
    “Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
    God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.”
    ― Alexander Pope
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    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “Margery Kempe was obviously an uncomfortable neighbor to have, like all those who cannot conceal the painfulness of life.”
    ― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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    Daniel N. Robinson
    “For five years he [Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)] served as personal secretary to, yes, Francis Bacon. In fact, I've noted over a course of years that the job of a secretary can be utterly fulfilling just in case one's boss happens to be Francis Bacon.”
    ― Daniel N. Robinson
    tags: francis-bacon, humor, secretaries, thomas-hobbes, work-ethic
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    John Updike
    “It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
    ― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
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    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    ― Sir Francis Bacon
    tags: books, reading
    8660 likes



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