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They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Little friends may prove great friends. – Aesop	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you. – Thomas Carlyle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities. – Thomas Carlyle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is as natural to die as to be born and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. – Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals. – Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. – Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion. – Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle. – Vincent Van Gogh	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly. – Aldous Huxley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements. – Clive Staples Lewis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind. – Matthew Prior	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life. – William Wordsworth	added by anonymous 14 years ago
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold. – William Wordsworth	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. – Arthur C. Clarke	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values-- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle. – John Updike	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life -- provided he go his own way. He need not and should not think of making a good living, but rather of creating a good life for himself. To live one's own life is still the best way of life, always was, and always will be. – Henry Miller	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is better to understand little than to understand a lot. – Anatole France	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The greatest wealth is to live content with little. – Plato	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. – Plato	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He who knows little quickly tells it. – Italian Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to need, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. – Conan Doyle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. – Conan Doyle	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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