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66 quotesLove is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.
Love
Novalis Hardenberg
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Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
Sleep
Heraclitus
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Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand the universe without God.
Science and Scientists
Robert Herrman
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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Poetry and Poets
Horace
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The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
Poetry and Poets
Horace
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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
Adversity
Horace
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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Critics and Criticism
Victor Hugo
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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Morality
Aldous Huxley
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Self-improvement
Aldous Huxley
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I want to put a ding in the universe.
Achievement
Steve Jobs
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Conversation
Samuel Johnson
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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
Law and Lawyers
Samuel Johnson
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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
Character
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
Conversation
Thomas Kempis
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
Self-knowledge
Jean De La Fontaine
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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
Action
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
Appearance
Charles Lamb
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Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
Books - Reading
John Milton
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Theology
Christopher Morley
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The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.
Nature
John Muir
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The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Abundance
Eden Phillpotts
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People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.
Judgment and Judges
Peace Pilgrim
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Reason
Alexander Pope
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A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
Poetry and Poets
Jules Renard
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.
Space
George Santayana
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun