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Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
Simplicity
Albert Einstein

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Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Value
Albert Einstein

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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Planning
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
Decisions
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Despair
George Eliot

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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
Words
George Eliot

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There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
Pride
George Eliot

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
Death and Dying
George Eliot

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.
Arts and Artists
T. S. Eliot

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I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.
Editing and Editors
T. S. Eliot

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Writers and Writing
T. S. Eliot

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There is no method but to be very intelligent.
Methods
T. S. Eliot

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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
Coward and Cowardice
Queen's Mother Elizabeth

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
Friends and Friendship
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Heroes and Heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Beauty
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
Cities and City Life
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
Genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.
Solitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Courtesy
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
Power
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Fate
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.
Education
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.
Imagination
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun