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| As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room | Jeremy Collier | 1650-1726, British Clergyman, Conjuror |
| Inaction may be the biggest form of action. | Jerry Brown | |
| Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you. | Jerry Gillies | American Author, Speaker |
| Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. | Jessamyn West | 1903-1984, American Author |
| You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. | Jewish Proverb | Sayings of Jewish Origin |
| There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. | Jiddu Krishnamurti | 1895-1986, Indian Theosophist |
| If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer! | Jim Carrey | 1962-, Canadian-born American Comedian, Actor |
| I am not a literary man. I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech. | Jim Murray | American Author |
| The book you don't read won't help. | Jim Rohn | American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher |
| Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. | Jim Rohn | American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher |
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| Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library. | Jim Rohn | American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher |
| Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book. | Jim Rohn | American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher |
| Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. | Jim Rohn | American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher |
| Income seldom exceeds personal development. | Jim Rohn | American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher |
| Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. | Jim Ryun | 1947-, American Athlete |
| @Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. | Joan Didion | 1934-, American Essayist |
| Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. | Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian |
| Speech is always bolder than action. | Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian |
| Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart? | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
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| Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| No one as ever completed their apprenticeship. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine -- and even, alas! Theology -- from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
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| Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. | John Aubrey | 1626-161997, British Antiquarian, Writer |
| When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own. | John Berger | 1926-, British Actor, Critic |
| One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. | John Berger | 1926-, British Actor, Critic |
| Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other. | John Christian Morgenstern | |
| A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. | John Ciardi | 1916-1986, American Teacher, Poet, Writer |
| More than kisses letters mingle souls. | John Donne | 1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet |
| Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak. | John Donne | 1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet |
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| Beware the fury of a patient man. | John Dryden | 1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic |
| It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree. | John F. Kennedy | 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA |
| Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place. | John French | 1852-1925, British Field Marshal |
| Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age. | John Greenleaf Whittier | 1807-1892, American Poet, Reformer, Author |
| Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou art free; Imprison it, lest it do thee. | John Hoskins | 1566-1638, British Lawyer, Wit |
| I am a part of everything that I have read. | John Kieran | |
| Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. | John Locke | 1632-1704, British Philosopher |
| Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing. | John Locke | 1632-1704, British Philosopher |
| Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own. | John Maynard Keynes | 1883-1946, British Economist |
| A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond. | John Milton | 1608-1674, British Poet |
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