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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.”

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Author:Blaise Pascal

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

“No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.”

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Author:Alexander Pope

“People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.”

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Author:Anna Quindlen

“Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.”

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Author:Paul Simon

“It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”

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Author:Max Ehrmann

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

Source: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims

“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.”

“None of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only another subtle way of trying to put ourselves on the same plane as God — acting as if we had no needs, as if we were not creatures, not dependent on Him.”

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Author:Thomas Merton