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Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

Quote by John Witherspoon about opinion, contentment

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

Quote by Jan Amos Komensky about education, nation, humanity, language, religion, end

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

Quote by John Burroughs about life, war, fight

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Quote by John Burroughs about failure, man

If you think you can do it, you can.

Quote by John Burroughs about will, contentment

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Quote by John Lubbock about worry, work, day

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Quote by John Lubbock about education, man

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Quote by John Lubbock about happiness, things

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Quote by John Lubbock about opinion

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Quote by John Lubbock about character, contentment

Through danger safety comes - through trouble, rest.

JQuote by John Marston about poetry, safety, danger, problems, rest

Love has no age, no limit and no death.

Quote by John Galsworthy about love, limits, age, olderness, death

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.

Quote by John Galsworthy about people, nothing, man

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

Quote by Jeremy John Irons about actors, children

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

Quote by John Berger about opinion, people

We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.

Quote by John Berger about opinion, injustice, force, impossible, death, nothing

Life is the art of drawing without having an eraser.

Quote by John Gardner about life, drawing, art, magic

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

Quote by John Updike about opinion, conspiracy, happiness, contentment

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

Quote by John Updike about childhood, shame

Sex is like money, only too much is enough.

Quote by John Updike about sex, money