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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington / Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it. Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist.

Emily Carr / Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh / Letters to Theo

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

Frances Hodgson Burnett / The Secret Garden (1911)

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

John Keats / Endymion (1818)

I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills, when all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils.

William Wordsworth / I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1807)

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach.

Henry David Thoreau / Walden (1854)

Forever is composed of nows.

Emily Dickinson / Attributed

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

H. G. Wells / Mind at the End of Its Tether

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

W. B. Yeats / Various attributed

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.

Virginia Woolf / Three Guineas

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Isaac Newton / Various attributed

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith / The Wealth of Nations

Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

John Locke / Second Treatise of Government

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan Swift / Thoughts on Various Subjects

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson / Conversation recorded by Boswell

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Alexander Pope / An Essay on Man

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.

Thomas Jefferson / Declaration of Independence

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln / Gettysburg Address

I am life that wants to live, surrounded by life that wants to live.

Albert Schweitzer / Reverence for Life
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