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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. - Alexander Smith

Devotion stands supreme, and it is the search for one's own true nature that is meant by devotion. - Adi Shankara, The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination, v. 31

Difficulties hardly pay in the long run.

Dignity is in leisure. - Herman Melville

Doing efficiently what had better be left undone, might call for the dreary fare and ruin in the long run.

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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself, taught John Dewey. There is much sorry education around.

Employ your time well, if you mean to gain leisure. - Benjamin Franklin

Enjoy sound experiences while you last.

Essential critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject above any need to maintain the professional standing of the critic. - With Raymond Chandler

Essential, proverbial wisdom tries to establish practical and sterling outcomes.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. - Pablo Picasso

Every child who can wilfully draw a line can draw, and everyone shows some artistry somewhere and somehow in what can be a life-long art of living. There are many sides to artistic expression.

Every neurosis probably has the purpose of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality, says Sigmund Freud.

Every true artist lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life. - Cf. Luigi Pirandello

Excellence is also doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. - With John W. Gardner

Exceptional learners share a definite set of skills and attitudes that account for their success. These people had learnt to do for themselves on their own. - Ronald Gross, Peak Learning, p. xiv, abr] - Gross, Ronald. Peak Learning: A Master Course in Learning How to Learn. Rev. ed. New York: J. Tarcher/Putnam, 1999.

External influencing probably climaxes in school settings of considerable length.

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Faith serves power and prestige fairly often. One is to guard against it.

Fit approvals could help us fit in likably and well.

Floundered persons may get ensnared by illusions, cramped hanky-pankies and nervous-looking isolation. Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life. — Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Elbert Hubbard with Albert Einstein

Foresight is a wonderful thing, and so is being careful and tidy.

Forming imagery helps too. There are vast possibilities open for those who learn to form inner, mental images in good, bright ways and link them up with issues and ideas of good worth. It could eventually improve one's lot.

Foundation stones for balanced success are honesty, integrity, and decency, and not to go far too far.

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General intelligence: "A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers." - Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

Getting into old age calls for good quality too.

God . . . invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat . . . He just goes on trying other things. - Pablo Picasso

Good and fair opportunities can be rewarding some way or other.

Good enough folk tales and other stories help children a lot.

Good sayings and savings can contain wit and wisdom and assist you so that you can afford to get more skilled in time too.

Good sayings can contain wit and wisdom, and look ruthless.

Good tools in proficient hands fairly often pay.

Great insights most often require deeper understanding than mere surface shows give.

Great is the man who has not lost his childlike heart. - Mencius

Great pretences are built up to hide emptiness.

Great talents may be neglected so thoroughly that finally no one knows they exist.

Great use of the spiritual forces for one's own self-indulgences and self-aggrandisement can work harm - not only to others but oneself inside. It turns out later. - Edgar Cayce, Reading 1599-1

Great-looking ideas of others are still not above being second-hand ideas to you, but may still offer much help.

Grotesque and shallow thinking can both be quite dangerous if they lead to falling moral and lack of contact with good old friends and what most people benefit from.