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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. William Shakespeare
Love Love Is Made Sighs Smoke
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Truth Truth Is Lie Half Lies Blackest Which Ever
The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to. Dodie Smith
Family Wish Our Never Dear Octopus Nor Escape Hearts Quite Whose Innermost
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happiness Thankful Gratitude Thought Thanks Would Highest Highest Form Maintain Wonder Form
The one thing you've gotta do is that you need to always do the best you can do, no matter what the given situation, no matter what comes up against you. You do the best you can do, and you never give up. Never quit. James Corden
Best Never Give Up You Matter Situation One Thing Give Given Never Never Quit Always Gotta Up Quit The One Thing Against Thing Need
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. John Lennon
God Man People Old Sky Rest Gone Believe One Thing Something Buddha Wrong Call Said Just Old Man Us Translations Mohammed Right Thing Jesus
I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused. Katarina Johnson-Thompson
Smile Change Personality Focused More Always
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sad Thought Laughter Before Pain Our Those Tell Fraught Some Songs Saddest Sincerest Look Pine After Sweetest
More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions. Simon Sinek
News People Emotions Dark Better Negative Adjust Bad More Only Bad News Know React Always Stir Accordingly Than Expectations Happening Information Less Reason Even Serve Keeping Things
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. Tony Blair
Freedom Democracy People Law Police Dictatorship Tyranny Secret Rule Rule Of Law Given Same Anytime Ordinary Anywhere Ordinary People Choice Choose Chance
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake
Friendship Man Bird Spider Nest Web
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood. Agatha Christie
Life You Happy Think Childhood Happen Happy Childhood Luckiest Things
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. Alan Watts
You Everything Tell Come Understand Go Off Forest Very Quiet Get Far Realize Connected Hermits
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. Alan Watts
Looking Stars Universe Out Constellations Badly Wrong Between Well Make Arranged Nor Comparisons Right Right And Wrong Things Night
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. Aldous Huxley
Religion Solitude Mind Will More Powerful Towards Original Incline
Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire. Allegra Huston
Time You Important Big Past Waste Time Drama Admire Spirit Generous Person Get Dwell Sucked Waste
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. Francis Bacon
Man Sense Of Humor Humor Sense Imagination Console Given He Him Compensate
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art Somewhere Consists Drawing Morality Like Line
Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest. James Lovelock
Environmental Easier Sadly Forest Than Create Much Desert
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. John Lennon
Reality Imagination Leaves Lot
Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you. John Lydon
You Dangerous Gossip Tool Relay More Very Trying Should Wary
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. Rudyard Kipling
People Equality Else Everyone Everyone Else Like Us
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. William Shakespeare
Good Words Say Kind Well Talking Doing Deed Deeds Good Deed
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. Alfred Austin
Me You Gardening Garden Tell Shall Your Show
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Myself Lose Action Despair Must Wither Lest
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. Alfred North Whitehead
Success Thankful Gratitude Wise Others No-One Without Does Confident Achieves Acknowledge Acknowledging Help Who
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