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When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

- Charles Lamb Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains.

- Charles Lamb Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Often we exaggerate the goodness of others more for our own virtue in giving praise than for the virtues that we praise thus we invite commendation by seeming to dispense it.

- François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This dwelt in me who does not know me now, where in her labyrinth I cannot follow, advance to be recognized, displace her terror I hold my heartbeat on my lap and cannot comfort her. Tonight she is condemned to cry out wolf or werewolf, and it echoes in the gulf and no one comes to cradle cold Narcissus the first cell that divided separates us.

- Maxine Kumin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

... Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

- J. (Jiddu) Krishnamurti Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.

- Louis (Lajos} Kossuth Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The human brain is incapable of creating anything which is really complex.

- Kolmogorov Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The great event on Calvary ... is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is the most durable power in the world, and that it is at bottom the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. Only through achieving this love can you expect to matriculate into the university of eternal life.

- Martin Luther King Jr. Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Thats why its a comfort to go hand in hand.

- Emily Kimbrough Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Be that self which one truly is.

- Søren Aabye Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I make mistakes Ill be the second to admit it.

- Jean Kerr Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Develop in youth the devotion to home interests and home affairs, to community interests and community affairs that led the founding fathers to establish a nation of communities upon this continent, dedicated to a decent, free life of equal opportunity under God, and consecrated to the principle that the State exists as an instrument for serving the individual, not for enslaving him. So instructed, American youth can be trusted.

- Joseph Kennedy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, 'I dont see how anyone can very well get on without them.'

- James Keller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Some time ago I took a trip on the Hudson and Manhattan Transit System. Not being familiar with the names of the various stops, I asked the man next to me the name of the station where we had just stopped. He replied, 'Ive been riding this line for fifteen years and I only know two stops where I get on and where I get off.'

- James Keller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To sorrow I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly She is so constant to me, and so kind.

- John Keats Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Asleep in lap of legends old.

- John Keats Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe. But when he tries to extend his proposition to everything, though it is much more interesting, it is also much more dangerous. In the transition from one to all, from the specific to the general, mathematics has made its greatest progress, and suffered its most serious setbacks, of which the logical paradoxes constitute the most important part. For, if mathematics is to advance securely and confidently, it must first set its affairs in order at home.

- Edward Kasner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

- Kabbalah Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Deem it the summit of impiety to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to sacrifice lifes only end.

- Decimus Junius Juvenalis Juvenal Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The integrity of men is to measured by their conduct, not by their possessions.

- Junius Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.

- Carl Gustav Jung Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

'I am not much of a mathematician,' said the cigarette, 'but I can add to a man's nervous troubles, I can subtract from his physical energy, I can multiply his aches and pains, I can divide his mental powers, I take interest from his work, and discount his chances for success.'

- David Starr Jordan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox or those who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy will be at last bestowed by time.

- Ben Jonson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It must be done like lightning.

- Ben Jonson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf To him man's dearer than to himself.

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