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But when he shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. ~Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ



Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde



Computers have lots of memory but no imagination. ~Author Unknown



That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface. ~Robert T. Pirsig



Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818



How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Remember, if you�re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! ~Allison Gappa Bottke



There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton



We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860



I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to. ~Author Unknown



Each kiss a heart-quake... ~Lord Byron, Don Juan



Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ~Robert Frost



In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. ~Sam Llewelyn



The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. ~William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches and Public Letters



It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. ~Henry James, Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne



Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse. ~Christopher Morley



We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves. ~Author Unknown



Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ~William Cowper



Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. ~Walter Savage Landor