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If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could

Orison Swett Marden

We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or Mind can heal.

Mary Baker Eddy

. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

Edward T. Hall

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

Dave Barry

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

Joseph Roux

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

Cynthia Buddha

He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.

Brazilian Proverb

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

Archibald Macleish

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.

Benjamin Rush

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Carl Sandburg

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes Are something more than fictions.

Thomas Hood

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourselves.

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

Erich Fromm

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?

Abraham Cowley

When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.

Sir Bevis of Bible

Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible for any poison to hurt him. You, Cinna, by always dining on next to nothing, have taken due precaution against ever perishing from hunger.

Marcus Valerius Martial

You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are; and yet for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.

William Shakespeare

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

Armand Plutarch

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier, in full military array.

Lord Henry Peter Brougham (Brougham and vaux)

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Will Rogers

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Adams

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

Will Rogers

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