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I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music. Albert Einstein
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. Albert Einstein
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things. Albert Einstein
Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water. Albert Einstein
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Albert Einstein
We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves. Kurt Cobain
We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers. Kurt Cobain
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out. Abu Bakr
Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity. Abu Bakr
And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity. Ernst Toller
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder. Aristophanes
You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. Publilius Syrus
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart mark and avoid him. Cicero
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute. Cicero
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. Plutarch
Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer. Johannes Tauler
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure. Francesco Petrarca
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation. Paracelsus
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth. Paracelsus
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps. François Rabelais
Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure. Michelangelo
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. Michel de Montaigne
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. Michel de Montaigne
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened. Michel de Montaigne
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity. Michel de Montaigne
For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all, all honourable men. William Shakespeare
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been. Samuel Daniel
Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. John Milton
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. Jonathan Swift
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. Henry Fielding
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. Laurence Sterne
For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image. George Whitefield
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self. Samuel Johnson
Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter. Benjamin Franklin
When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work. Edward Gibbon
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive. George Washington
I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world. George Washington

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