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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Thomas Carlyle

Love, Humor, Heart

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Henry Miller

Life, Strength, True

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Lord Byron

Life, Men, Death

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
James A. Baldwin

Law, Hatred, Destroy

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Ambrose Bierce

Religion, Place, State

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Ambrose Bierce

Weather, Instrument, Ingenious

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
Ambrose Bierce

Thinking, While, Talking

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan Watts

Love, Actually, Pretend

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Mind, Away, Afraid

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George Eliot

Jealousy, Passion, Fire

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Small, Ambition

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
James F. Cooper

Character, Him, Around

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.
Hillary Clinton

Change, Trying, Challenge

You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media.
Hillary Clinton

Down, Eyes, Touch

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Brendan Behan

Women, Men, Food

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Truth, Lie, Lies

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
Pablo Picasso

Everyone, Face, Himself

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
Doug Coupland

Human, Brain, Sense

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George Eliot

Great, Hope, Sorrow

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Office, Hold, Position

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
Marquis de Sade

Greatest, Country, Dangerous

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
Orison Swett Marden

Become, Inside, Discover

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon

Nature, Revenge, Justice

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis Bacon

Lost, Trying, Between

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
Sophocles

Time, Nothing, Hide

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
James Joyce

Human, Philosophy, Church

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
Karl Marx

Good, Philosophy, Seems

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
Henry Miller

Crazy, Becoming, Salvation

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
Victor Hugo

Before, Changing, River

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal

Nature, Infinite, Nowhere

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