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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. (Quote by - Navajo Proverb)

When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)

Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. (Quote by - Zen Buddhist Proverb)

You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough. (Quote by - William Blake)

He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzche)

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose. (Quote by - Robert Brault)

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. (Quote by - Leo Rosten)

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. (Quote by - John Muir)

Will localizes us; thought universalizes us. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am? (Quote by - John Lancaster Spalding)

A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. (Quote by - Lee Segall)

The road was new to me, as roads always are going back. (Quote by - Sarah Orne Jewett)

I doubt one could live in the darkness, but one could probably survive. (Quote by - Nathaniel LeTonnerre)

It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, theres no knowing where you might be swept off to. (Quote by - J.r.r. Tolkien)

You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me? (Quote by - Robert Brault)

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. (Quote by - John Locke)

Learning without thought is labor lost. (Quote by - Confucius)

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. (Quote by - Matsuo Basho)

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)

No brain is stronger than its weakest think. (Quote by - Thomas L. Masson)

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death. (Quote by - Heraclitus)

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? (Quote by - George Gordon)

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