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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #3
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #4
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #5
    Guy de Maupassant
    “Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
    Guy de Maupassant

  • #6
    “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
    Thomas Campbell

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #9
    Alfred Tennyson
    “No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • #10
    Alfred Tennyson
    “There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.”
    Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  • #11
    Jack London
    “I would rather be ashes than dust!
    I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
    I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
    The function of man is to live, not to exist.
    I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
    I shall use my time.”
    Jack London

  • #12
    Edmund Burke
    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
    Edmund Burke

  • #13
    Edmund Burke
    “Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.”
    Edmund Burke

  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #15
    George Orwell
    “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
    George Orwell

  • #16
    Ernst F. Schumacher
    “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
    E.F. Schumacher

  • #17
    Winston S. Churchill
    “We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #18
    Alfred Tennyson
    “I will drink life to the lees.”
    Alfred Tennyson

  • #19
    Alfred Tennyson
    “Once in a golden hour
    I cast to earth a seed.
    Up there came a flower,
    The people said, a weed.”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson

  • #20
    Alfred Tennyson
    “Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”
    Lord Alfred Tennyson

  • #21
    Alfred Tennyson
    “Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde



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