William Gurney Benham Quotes
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I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
Euripides
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Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.
William James
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Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.
William Shakespeare
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At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!
Alexander the Great
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Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve. Comfort yourself. You would not seek me if you had not found me.
Blaise Pascal
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Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.
Willem de Kooning
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In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In ruling, be just. In daily life, be competent. In action, be aware of the time and the season.
Lao Tzu
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Hence reason also demands that, since our thoughts cannot all be true because we are not wholly perfect, what truth they do possess must inevitably be found in the thoughts we have when awake, rather than in our dreams.
Rene Descartes
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The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.
Virginia Woolf
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There must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean.
Cary Grant
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The sin is not in the sinning, but in the being found out.
William Gurney Benham
