Richard Milhous Nixon
I concede
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Robert Orben
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Know thyself, said the old philosopher, improve thyself, saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, O Magazine, April 2003
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
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