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posted by Staff, on 11 october 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)

It may be that if I lead the life I've planned for myself it may affect others; the effect may be no greater than the ripple caused by a stone thrown in a pond, but one ripple causes another.

William Somerset Maugham

posted by Staff, on 11 october 2026 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table, a fool's notion of history.

Honor� de Balzac

posted by Staff, on 10 october 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

posted by Staff, on 10 october 2026 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Men & Women)

Once at least in his life each man walks with Christ to Emmaus.

Oscar Wilde

posted by Staff, on 9 october 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Friend)

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Ludwig van Beethoven

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