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It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itself pleasant to do, and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious. William Morris
Work Worth Pleasant Neither Would Shall Make Doing Nor Conditions Itself Done Which Should Right Necessary
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it. William Penn
World Mend Better Men Live Out Excites True Does Enables Godliness Endeavors Them Turn
It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions. William Shakespeare
Stars Our Above Govern Conditions Us
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! William Shakespeare
God Me World Weary Seem How Flat Stale Uses
O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side! William Shakespeare
Man Hide Angel Side Though Outward Him Within May
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. William Shakespeare
Fear Care Well Exempt Done Themselves Things
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? William Shakespeare
Patience Wound Degrees Heal How Did Poor Ever
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. William Shakespeare
Word Action Suit
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home. William Temple
Home Conversation Factors Most Educational Child Influential
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. William Wordsworth
Hope Without Mourn Suffer
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. Quentin Crisp
Health Consists Neighbors Having Diseases Same
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. Quentin Crisp
People Think Other Ourselves Reconcile About Purpose Opinion Glowing Existence Very Hold Us Appalling Things
A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain. A. A. Milne
Entertainment Welcome Natural Gift Envy Laughter Clever Setting Those Tribute Must Some Powers Greater Limited Arranging Beds Lot Which Anywhere Us Much View Whose Applause
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject. A. A. Milne
Own Those Bores Classes Divided Particular Subject Who Two Need
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence. A. A. Milne
Work Money Something More Writer He Permanence His Than Wants
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. Agatha Christie
Love You People Thought Looking See Only How How Much Curious Just Them Realize Much Ridiculous
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human. Agatha Christie
Evil Superhuman Something Than Human Less
Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second. Agatha Christie
Justice Innocent Too Much Mercy First Too Crimes Further Resulted Had Put Were Been Often Which Victims Much Who Second Fatal Need
Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere - and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity and weakness and fear and anxiety because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are. Alain de Botton
Day Anxiety Fear End Of The Day Think Our Everywhere Weakness Masks Because Opposite End Get Behind Which Interested Sensitivity Really Sweetness
I don't make enemies, it's just I'm not afraid to speak my mind, which can sometimes mean people don't like what I am saying. Alan Sugar
Saying People Speak Sometimes Enemies Mind Like Make Am Just Afraid Which Mean Mean People
The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer. Alan Turing
Saying Digital Machines Out Carry Could Computer Computers Idea Operations Intended Any Done May Behind Human Which Explained
And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. Alan Watts
Natural Skin Our Kind Inside Except Outside Environment Between Bounded Although Exist Cannot Natural Environment Bodies Certain Differentiate
So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing. Alan Watts
Preaching Saves Changing Liberated Able Delivered Stop Being Them Act Showing Beings Sermons
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. Alan Watts
You Will Paradoxes Find Writings Study Particularly Always Them Appear Zen Things
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. Aldous Huxley
Truth Lie Eclipsed Thrilling May
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. Aldous Huxley
Work People See How Themselves Really
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