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Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton:Happiness and virtue


Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
by Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton


Arthur Guiterman:The carpenter is not the best


The carpenter is not the best who makesmore chips than all the rest.
by Arthur Guiterman


Kin Hubbard:If capital and labor ever do get


If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.
by Kin Hubbard


Don Marquis:The successful people are the ones


The successful people are the ones who can think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
by Don Marquis


Unknown:Love is knowing that you want to spend


Love is knowing that you want to spend the rest ofyour life with someone, and not knowing if they want to spend it with you.
by Unknown


William Winter:Ambition has but one reward for


Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
by William Winter


Sivananda:Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man


Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
by Sivananda


Thomas Aquinas:Reasoning is compared to


Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understood—namely, the first principles; and, again, in the order of judgment, returns by analysis to first principles, in the light of which it examines what it has found. Now it is clear that rest and movement are not to be referred to different powers, but to one and the same.
by Thomas Aquinas


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:Ah, how skillful


Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart and not the brain That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest.
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


John Updike:The refusal to rest content, the


The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one’s obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. (on J.D. Salinger)
by John Updike


I Ching:It is an inexorable Law of Nature that


It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside.
by I Ching


Dewitt Bodeen:I know what love is. It’s


I know what love is. It’s understanding. It’s you and me and let the rest of the world go by. Just the two of us living our lives together happily and proudly. No self-torture and no doubt. It’s enduring and it’s everlasting. Nothing can change it. Nothing can change us, Ollie. That’s what I think love is.
by Dewitt Bodeen


The Divine Pymander:The path of immortality is


The path of immortality is hard, and only a few find it. The rest await the Great Day when the wheels of the universe shall be stopped and the immortal sparks shall escape from the sheaths of substance. Woe unto those who wait, for they must return again, unconscious and unknowing, to the seed-ground of stars, and await a new beginning.
by The Divine Pymander


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