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Quote by Daniel Defoe
Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. – Daniel Defoe

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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. – Daniel Defoe

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My greatest wealth is the deep stillness in which I strive and grow and win what the world cannot take from me with fire or sword. – Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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[T]he hours are even now never so full of gain as when I give them to the sky, the sea, the open wold. Why should we grudge Nature our heart? We might as well grudge it to the God who made the world. – Adeline Sergeant, The Story of a Penitent Soul: Being the Private Papers of Mr.

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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. – Marcel Proust

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The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured. – Michael D. Higgins

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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. – English Proverb

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