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Related He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion,... BARROW He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful compa... ISAAC BARROW He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companio... DR. ISAAC BARROW He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion... ISAAC BARROW Would you want you as a friend? PETER STROPLE One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE How do you know about the world is real?... How?... How you don't think that you are locke... DEYTH BANGER Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ... MAUREEN JOHNSON A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himse... JAMES BOSWELL I tried to think of a vice I want to sacrifice, and ended up reasoning that I need my bad habits, de... SARA BAUME In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part... RAJAT MOHAN It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a... ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm... SUPERNA BATHEJA Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... oh, oh GreenHollyWood says with a smile and even and angry sounds like devil who comes from hell... ... DEYTH BANGER And even if you do wear a maid outfit, it doesn't change the fact that you're strong or that you're ... HIRO FUJIWARA The director of the Road Safety Authority comes on the radio to tell me that today is the day of the... SARA BAUME Everything is very nearly over. And so none of the normal rules of behavior apply. And so none of my... SARA BAUME But I know I will do neither; nothing. I have all the time in the world, and yet, I can't be bothere... SARA BAUME So it's as if,' I say, 'I'm okay in my own bones, but I know that my bones aren't living up to other... SARA BAUME There really isn't much wrong with me,' I say, 'it's just that, well, I'm not like other people; I d... SARA BAUME I knew precisely what things I wanted to do—and when and why—and I was deeply resentful of other... SARA BAUME Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone s... RICHARD MITCHELL Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise. , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything. , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conv... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms. , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into th... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems ... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably j... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the door... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference. , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy wor... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slo... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to the... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews boo... GEORGE W. S. TROW Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere,
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MITCHELL GREEN I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... EDWARD R. MURROW the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in. RICHIE NORTON But nowadays I feel guilty that I am granted the immunity of the artistically gifted, having never a... SARA BAUME I think: by the time I'm old, nobody will be able to die any more. SARA BAUME How I adored to draw as a child, a teen; all my life before I began to try and shape a career out of... SARA BAUME The entrepreneurs are only about my age, probably younger, but they don't seem so. Their tailored cl... SARA BAUME Did it do me any good, early in life, to believe so many things which were not true? Or did it damag... SARA BAUME What bothered me was all of the time he wasted by drumming, and all the time I wasted by listening t... SARA BAUME I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles HELEN SCHUCMAN You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER There isn't an hour of my life without you in it. I mend the boats, test them and all the while the ... NICHOLAS SPARKS If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for ... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS You don' know how bizarre it is to see Goyle thinking. J.K. ROWLING The One appears to be my Companion; the One is my Brother and Friend. The elements and the component... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po... TERRY PRATCHETT In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus MADELEINE L’ENGLE As a small boy Francis Crick had been haunted by a fear that by the time he grew up everything would... MATT RIDLEY The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person read... MEM FOX If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi... JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh... A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER If I didn't know you I would say I don't know you. JAIME CABRERA What do I look for in a friend? You! ANTHONY T.HINCKS A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitud... HENRY WARD BEECHER A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitud... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE There are fortunes being made by turning fans into victims and all it starts by creating that frenzy... ABBY ARONOWITZ History is replete with blunders written by sycophants. 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ARTHUR MILLER Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who shoul... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only ... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. ARTHUR KOESTLER We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER No one can transcend their own individuality. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million. ARTHUR KOESTLER The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so yo... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spect... ARTHUR KOESTLER The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton . Caesar is supposed to have sa... ARTHUR QUINN Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process. ARTHUR QUINN Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions ... ARTHUR QUINN The word of man is the most durable of all material. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivatio... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her. ARTHUR RIMBAUD The present is the only reality and the only certainty. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical G... ARTHUR MILLER Rascals are always sociable -- more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in hi... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Socialism is a vast machine for churning out piles of goods marked Take it or leave it. ARTHUR SELDON Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are locat... ARTHUR KOESTLER True creativity often starts where language ends. ARTHUR KOESTLER Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and wh... ARTHUR PHELPS A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Id... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match. ARTHUR MILLER The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want ... ARTHUR BRISBANE The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happe... ARTHUR MILLER It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendiu... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER