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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tags: independence, ownership, possession

Agesilaus the Spartan king was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.

Plutarch

Agesilaus the Spartan king was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.

Plutarch

Tags: imitation

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Havelock Ellis

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Havelock Ellis

Tags: imagination

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare

Tags: illusion

One learns by doing the thing for though you think you know it you have no certainty until you try.

Sophocles

One learns by doing the thing for though you think you know it you have no certainty until you try.

Sophocles

Tags: ignorance

It is a sign of strength not of weakness to admit that you don't know all the answers.

John P. Loughrane

It is a sign of strength not of weakness to admit that you don't know all the answers.

John P. Loughrane

Tags: ignorance, self, acceptance

To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Tags: ignorance

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

John Lyly

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

John Lyly

Tags: ignorance

How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterward.

Spanish Proverb

How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterward.

Spanish Proverb

Tags: idleness

The ability to laugh at life is right at the top with love and communication in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel so...

Sara Davidson

The ability to laugh at life is right at the top with love and communication in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel so...

Sara Davidson

Tags: humour, humorists

Humour is the only test of gravity and gravity of humour for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Aristotle

Humour is the only test of gravity and gravity of humour for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Aristotle

Tags: humour, humorists

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done...

Robert Frost

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done...

Robert Frost

Tags: human, relations, relationship

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is t...

Elizabeth Bowen

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is t...

Elizabeth Bowen

Tags: human, relations, relationship

When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone.

Old saying

When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone.

Old saying

Tags: human, relations

Fools build houses and wise men buy them.

English Proverb

Fools build houses and wise men buy them.

English Proverb

Tags: house

Hope is the last thing ever lost.

Italian proverb

Hope is the last thing ever lost.

Italian proverb

Tags: hope

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Tags: hope

Everybody lives for something better to come.

Anonymous

Everybody lives for something better to come.

Anonymous

Tags: hope

One of the best safeguards of our hopes I have suggested is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them to face them directly not with despair but with the creative in...

William F. Lynch

One of the best safeguards of our hopes I have suggested is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them to face them directly not with despair but with the creative in...

William F. Lynch

Tags: hope

Hope! of all ills that men endure The only cheap and universal cure.

Abraham Cowley

Hope! of all ills that men endure The only cheap and universal cure.

Abraham Cowley

Tags: hope
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