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We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
Bolingbroke on reason

God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
Benjamin Tillett on marriage

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
Paul Tillich on risk

Few ever lived to a great age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.
Todd on age

The road goes ever on and on down fromthe door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone and I must follow if I can. Pursuing it with weary feet until it joins some larger way, where many paths and errands meet -and whither then, I cannot say.
J.R.R. Tolkien on destiny

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy on art

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy on beauty

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy on change

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy on individuality

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Leo Tolstoy on love

For fast acting relief try slowing down.
Lily Tomlin on inspiration

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin on success

I’m not in business to be loved, but I am in business.
Robert Towne on business

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
Arnold J. Toynbee on diplomacy

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.
Solomon Trismosin on study

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky on age

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
Leon Trotsky on spririt

There is nothing more difficult to carry out and more doubtful of success than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all who prosper by the old order.
Italo Bombolini on success

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Harry Truman on adversity

A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and forever.
Tupper on books