I hope that my achievements in life shall be these — that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I’ve done and who I’ve been.
- C. Hoppe
Fortune never seems so blind as to those upon whom she has bestowed no favours
– La Rochefoucauld
Variant: I quote others only the better to express myself.
– I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if i can remember any of the damn things.
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
- Jean De La BruyFre 1645-1696, French Classical Writer
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson that my father passed on to me, that knowledge liberates mankind from superstition. We can live our lives without the constant fear that we have offended this or that deity who must be placated by incantation or sacrifice, or that we are at the mercy of devils or the Fates. With increasing knowledge, the intellectual darkness that surrounds us is illuminated and we learn more of the beauty and wonder of the natural world.
– James D. Watson, Darwin: The Indelible Stamp: The Evolution of an Idea, 2005, Running Press, unidentified edition/chapter/page
Fear is the foundation of society
Famous Quotes – Unknown
A dance is a measured pace, as a verse is a measured speech.
– Francis Bacon
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Failure
I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.
Abraham Lincoln
Source: July 22, 1860 – Letter to George Latham
– Abraham Lincoln
You can never get enough of what you don’t want.
- Wayne Dyer 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.
– February 21, 1861 – Address to the New Jersey General Assembly
– Abraham Lincoln
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