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Charles Dickens
England
7 Feb 1812 // 9 Jun 1870
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On Heart:
It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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