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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• I Am a Part of All That I Have Met

Ambrose Bierce

• Admiration, n.
• Alone, adj.
• Bore, n.
• Philosophy, n.
• Positive, adj.

Arnold Bennett

• Change Is Always Accompanied by Drawbacks
• Sacred Enclosure

Benjamin Franklin

• Well Done Is Better Than Well Said

Charlotte Brontë

• Life Too Short for Animosity
• Rather Be Happy Than Dignified

Christina Rossetti

• Silence More Musical
• Work Never Begun

Edgar Allan Poe

• A Dream Within a Dream
• And All I Lov’d
• There Is No Exquisite Beauty
• They Who Dream by Day

Emily Dickinson

• The Brain—is wider than the Sky—
• I Dwell in Possibility
• Not Knowing When the Dawn Will Come

Epictetus

• First Say to Yourself
• He Is Free Who Lives as He Wishes

Friedrich Nietzsche

• Become What You Are
• One Must Still Have Chaos
• Only Thoughts That Come by Walking

George Edward Woodberry

• Mankind Is the Grandest Artist
• Not to Have Tried Is the True Failure

H. G. Wells

• Our True Nationality Is Mankind
• We Were Making the Future

Henry David Thoreau

• Dreams Are the Touchstones
• Not Till We Are Lost
• Our Truest Life
• The Cost of a Thing

Horace

• Nullius in Verba
• Sapere Aude

James Madison

• If Men Were Angels
• Knowledge Will Forever Govern Ignorance

John Adams

• Facts Are Stubborn Things
• I Must Study Politicks and War

John Milton

• A Good Book
• The Mind Is Its Own Place

Leo Tolstoy

• Everybody Thinks of Changing Humanity
• No Greatness Without Simplicity

Mahatma Gandhi

• Be the Change

Marcus Aurelius

• No Longer Talk
• The Soul Is Dyed by the Thoughts

Mary Shelley

• I Am Fearless and Therefore Powerful
• The World Was to Me a Secret

Michel de Montaigne

• The Greatest Thing in the World
• When Any One Contradicts Me
• He Who Fears He Shall Suffer

Muriel Strode

• Leave a Trail

Oscar Wilde

• Consistency
• The Public Is Wonderfully Tolerant
• The Truth Is Rarely Pure

Percy Bysshe Shelley

• We Are as Clouds

Rainer Maria Rilke

• I Live My Life in Circles
• My Life’s Dark Hours

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• To Be Great Is to Be Misunderstood

Seneca

• Claim Yourself for Yourself
• Everything Is Alien to Us
• Everywhere Means Nowhere
• No Easy Way to the Stars
• We Suffer More Often in Imagination
• While We Are Postponing, Life Speeds By
• Withdraw Into Yourself

Theodore Roosevelt

• Man in the Arena

Thomas Jefferson

• Dreams of the Future
• Eternal Hostility Against Tyranny of the Mind
• I Cannot Live Without Books

Walt Whitman

• Re-examine All You Have Been Told
• Resist Much, Obey Little

William Blake

• To See a World in a Grain of Sand
• No Bird Soars Too High

William James

• The Art of Being Wise
• Only Half Awake