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I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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Never let your uniqueness be compromised ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened and that is 90 percent of the history in books. ↗

— Michael Gruber

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There is nothing in the path of life that we don't already know before we start. Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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When you've got everything and think you've got nothing you've actually got less ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late. ↗

— A.A. Milne

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Life is but a fine wine to be sipped and favored. ↗

— Pittacus Lore

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Life is not only Newton, it is also Milton. ↗

— Wasif Ali Wasif

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Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years because you are afraid to be alive and tot ake the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action. ↗

— Miguel Ruiz

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All the world's a stage, and most of us are desperately under-rehearsed. ↗

— Seán O'Casey

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