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Look for wisdom from different periods in history, from ancient times to the modern day.

453 quotes found

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The great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

—Walt WhitmanPoet & Essayist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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If they burn our fields, we will burn theirs. If they kill, we will kill.

—Samori TouréEmperor

Industrial Age ERA • West Africa

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

—Mark TwainNovelist & Humorist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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The drop dies in the river of its fulfillment.

—Mirza GhalibPoet

Industrial Age ERA • South Asia

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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint.

—Alexis de TocquevilleScientist & Historian

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

—Mark TwainNovelist & Humorist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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We all have a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it.

—Jane AustenNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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So little cause for carolings of such ecstatic sound was written on terrestrial things afar or nigh.

—Thomas HardyNovelist & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Love is not to be forced, it is a fire. It cannot be lit at will, nor extinguished.

—Mirza GhalibPoet

Industrial Age ERA • South Asia

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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

—Rabindranath TagorePoet, Philosopher & Artist

Industrial Age ERA • South Asia

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Reject the foreign customs and return to the sacred practices of our ancestors.

—PapahurihiaProphet

Industrial Age ERA • Oceania

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The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts.

—George EliotScholar & Thinker

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company.

—Mark TwainNovelist & Humorist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

—Oscar WildePlaywright & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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I can resist everything except temptation.

—Oscar WildePlaywright & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

—Oscar WildePlaywright & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

—Honoré de BalzacNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Mountains know secrets we need to learn.

—José MartíPoet & Essayist

Industrial Age ERA • Caribbean

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Art for art's sake: pure beauty, truth in form, transcending all utility.

—Rubén DaríoPoet

Industrial Age ERA • Central America

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

—Jane AustenNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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