People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Top ranked:
| Quote | Autor | Rank |
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| Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the... | Mustafa Kemal Ataturk | 5.0 |
| People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness. | Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider | 5.0 |
| People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. | Logan Pearsall Smith | 5.0 |
Recently ranked:
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| Personally I have struggled massively with the dilemma of talent vs desire.... | Meri Williams | 2.5 |
| Peace is costly, but it is worth the expense. | Kenyan Proverb | 4.0 |
| People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like. | Abraham Lincoln | 4.0 |
Picked randomly:
| Quote | Autor | Rank |
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| Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should... | John Keats | |
| Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're... | L. M. Montgomery | |
| People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession... | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Commonly ranked:
| Quote | Autor | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. | Samuel Johnson | 3.4 |
| People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are... | E. B. White | 2.9 |
| Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information... | Peter McWilliams | 3.2 |