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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Alfred Nobel

The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.
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Excellence Force Impossible Volume War Writing
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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Book Death Ink Life Man
Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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Hide Hope Naked Nature True
Nature is man’s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.
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Breathe Existence Heart Influence Man Nature Purity Sound Teaching Treasure
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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Alone Goodness Peace
I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.
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Action Difficult Dreams Leaving Life Man Work
Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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Imagination Justice
I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.
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Food Ideas Lose Myself Philosophy Reality
Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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One Liner Poison Stomach Worry Worst
Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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Greatness Lying One Liner Sin
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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Brief Feeling Myself Writing
For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.
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Hell Place Proper Weapon
I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
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Call Depression Improvement Myself Poetry Purpose Writing
My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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Home Myself Work
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
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Ideas Leaving Myself Peace Result
Contentment is the only real wealth.
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Reality Satisfaction Wealth

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