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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Success, Nothing, After

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
Lewis Carroll

Book, Pictures, Alice

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
Franz Kafka

Until, Action, State

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
John Ruskin

Nothing, Give, Unless

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
Louis Pasteur

Knowledge, Science, Humanity

I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.
Lena Dunham

Life, Feeling, Head

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
Stendhal

Love, Death, True

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Remain, Absurdity, Masters

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Samuel Butler

Nothing, Unless, Absence

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
William Butler Yeats

Moment, Maybe, Line

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Michelangelo

Greatest, Artist, Hold

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
Andy Warhol

America, Same, Again

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Men, Nothing, After

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Samuel Butler

Marriage, Heaven, General

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
Samuel Butler

Good, Care, Either

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Knowing, Nor, Places

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
Euripides

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.
Richard Pryor

Makes, Bitter, Immobile

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
Andy Warhol

Actually, Name, Tombstone

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
Lily Tomlin

Person, Thinking, May

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
Indira Gandhi

Death, Fear, Die

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
Alfred North Whitehead

Best, End, Done

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
Charles William Eliot

Happy, Yourself, Spiritual

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
Samuel Johnson

Human, Everything, Valuable

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Woman, Nothing

I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Women, Words, Chance

A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely unreasonable over the most ridiculous thing. It's a girl thing.
Lea DeLaria

Girl, Woman, Her

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
Doris Lessing

Simple, Perfect, Prayer

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
Andy Warhol

Everything, Why, Keep

I never thought about getting any tattoos removed.
Henry Rollins

Getting, Tattoos, Removed

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