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«How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.»
Author: Anne Frank (Author) | About: Improvement, Life, Mankind | Keywords: improve, starting
«Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable»
Author: Henri Bergson (Philosopher) | About: Mankind, Reason | Keywords: endowed, homo, Homo sapiens, pin, sapiens, unreasonable, with reason
«Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz (Humorist, Writer) | About: Mankind | Keywords: average, averages, ideas, on average, on the average, small talk, talk, talk about, wine, wines
«God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed»
Author: Muslih-uddin Sadi | About: Mankind | Keywords: undisturbed
«Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | About: Fortune, Happiness, Mankind | Keywords: conveniences, fortune, good fortune, occur, pieces, pleasures, seldom, small fortune, to a man
«Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr. (Lawyer, Philosopher) | About: History, Humanity, Logic, Mankind, Mathematics, Morality, Philosophy, Poets | Keywords: contend, Histories, moral philosophy, natural history, natural philosophy, rhetoric, witty
«Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | About: Mankind, Poetry, Speech | Keywords: healthy, natural, poets, speech
«General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind.»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau | About: Ideas, Mankind | Keywords: General Idea
«Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided»
Author: John Locke (Philosopher) | About: Evil, Goodness, Mankind, Motives | Keywords: guided, motives, rational, rein, reined, reins, set on, spur, spurred, whereby
«Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.»
Author: William Wordsworth (Poet) | About: Dreams, Mankind, Mind | Keywords: huge, mighty, moved, slowly
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