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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Whoso loves<br>Believes the...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Whoso loves
Believes the...

Whoso loves
Believes the impossible.


Source: Aurora Leigh, bk. 5, 1857.
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Mae West: To err is...

Mae West: To err is...

To err is human, but it feels divine.

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: You gain strength,...

Eleanor Roosevelt: You gain strength,...

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You...

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Charlotte Bronte: It is vain...

Charlotte Bronte: It is vain...

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it...

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Beatrice Lillie: [R]eaction and laughter...

Beatrice Lillie: [R]eaction and laughter...

[R]eaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: The future belongs...

Eleanor Roosevelt: The future belongs...

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Source: In...

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Lillian Smith: The human heart...

Lillian Smith: The human heart...

The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that...

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Charlotte Bronte: The soul, fortunately,...

Charlotte Bronte: The soul, fortunately,...

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the...

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Marilyn vos Savant: The length of...

Marilyn vos Savant: The length of...

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than...

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Emma Goldman: Someone has said...

Emma Goldman: Someone has said...

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

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Helen Keller: Although the world...

Helen Keller: Although the world...

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

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Lorraine Hansberry: There is always...

Lorraine Hansberry: There is always...

There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned...

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Didi Conn: If there was...

Didi Conn: If there was...

If there was a food place, I was like cottage cheese, or maybe the lettuce. I had really so little to do on that...

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Marguerite Yourcenar: The memory of...

Marguerite Yourcenar: The memory of...

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to...

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M F K Fisher: When a man...

M F K Fisher: When a man...

When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. But at six years old his very bowels...

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Kathy Ireland: Beauty comes...

Kathy Ireland: Beauty comes...

Beauty comes in all ages, colors, shapes, and forms. God never makes junk

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Hannah Cowley: O lord! your...

Hannah Cowley: O lord! your...

O lord! your wise men are the greatest fools upon earth; they reason about their enjoyments, and analyse their...

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Hannah Cowley: The charms that...

Hannah Cowley: The charms that...

The charms that heIped to catch the husband are generally laid by, one after another, till the lady grows a downright...

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Dora Russell: We have heeded...

Dora Russell: We have heeded...

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love...

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Elizabeth Dole: We have learned...

Elizabeth Dole: We have learned...

We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.

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