RUDYARD KIPLING 1865-1935

English writer of popular verse who was famous for his “Jungle Book.”

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Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool.

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FRAN LEBOWITZ b1951

American writer

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I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. 

What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

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MAXIM GORKY 1868-1936

Soviet writer and political activist  

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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

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WASHINGTON IRVING 1783-1859

American essayist who wrote “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”  

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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. 

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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 1807-82

American poet and educator

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Sorrow and silence are strong and patient; endurance is godlike.

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J.K. ROWLING b.1965

British novelist best known for her Harry Potter books

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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

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Florence Nightingale Receiving the Wounded at Scutari, by Jerry Barrett

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ISAAC NEWTON 1642-1727

English physicist and mathematician

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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Today on THE ETERNAL VENUS 

The Lady with the Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci

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CARL JUNG 1875-1961

Swiss psychiatrist

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You are what you do, not what you say you will do.

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MARCUS AURELIUS 121-180 AD

Roman Emperor from 161-180

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Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

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Chinese Proverb

Before setting out for revenge, first dig two graves - one for your enemy and one for yourself

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EMILY DICKINSON 1830-86

American poet

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed.

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ARNOLD BENNETT 1867-1931

English novelist  

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A most curious and useful thing to realise is that one never knows the impression one is creating on other people. 

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WILLIAM FEATHER 1889-1981

American publisher and author

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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness. Not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE 1820-1910

English nurse and hospital reformer during the Crimean War

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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this - "devoted and obedient." This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse.

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ANTOINE de SAINT-EXUPERY 1900-44

French aristocrat writer, poet and pioneering aviator

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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but on looking together in the same direction.

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HELEN KELLER 1880-1968

American writer and lecturer who was both deaf and blind

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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 1844-1900

German philosopher

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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

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Updated every Friday - QUIRKIE QUOTES 
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BERTRAND RUSSELL 1872-1970

British philosopher, mathematician, historian and social critic

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 No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.

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DORIS LESSING b.1919

 Rhodesian writer exiled to Britain

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There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but the second best.

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ROBERT SOUTHEY 1774-1843

English poet who was Poet Laureate from 1813 till his death.

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Curses are like young chickens. They always come home to roost.

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L.M. MONTGOMERY 1874-1942

Canadian author best known for "Anne of Green Gables"

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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

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beginning today - THE ETERNAL VENUS

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SAMUEL JOHNSON 1709-84

English poet, essayist, critic and biographer

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Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempting to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.

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JOHN RUSKIN 1819-1900

English art critic

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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

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EMILY BRONTE 1818-48

English novelist and poet

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I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.

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CONFUCIUS 551BC-479BC

Chinese teacher and philosopher

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I hear and I forget,

I see and I remember,

I do and I understand.

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PENELOPE FITZGERALD 1916-2000

Booker prize-winning English novelist and poet

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Twice in your life you know that you are approved by everyone; 

when you learn to walk and when you learn to read.

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MARCEL PROUST 1871-1922

French novelist and essayist

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We do not receive wisdom. We must discover it for ourselves after experience which no one else can have for us and from which no one else can spare us.

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GAUTAMA BUDDHA circa563 BC to 483 BC

A spiritual teacher from the Indian subcontinent, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. 

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There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; 

not going all the way, and not starting.

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IRIS MURDOCH 1919-99

Irish-born British author and philosopher

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What can one do with the past? 

Forgive it. Let it enter into you in peace.

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H.L. MENCKEN 1880-1956

American journalist, essayist and satirist

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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as a good burglar. 

updated every week-end

QUIRKIE QUOTES

including "What a Nasty Thing to Say"

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BLAISE PASCAL 1623-62

French mathematician, inventor and philosopher

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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others. 

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