| "To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely." »Hugo Von Hofmannsthal |
| "When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool." »Josh Billings |
| "To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
| "Whatever happens at all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely." »Henry Adams |
| "Whatever happens it all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is" »Alan B. Watts |
| "If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence." »Bertrand Russell |
| "Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do." »Anthony Sampson |
| "A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question. Does this path have a heart If it does, the path is good if it doesn't it is of no use." »Carlos Castaneda |
| "As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness." »Thomas Mann |
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