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Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things. -Amelia Earhart, aviator (1897-1937)

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. -Meister Eckhart, theologian (c. 1260-1327)

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. -Meister Eckhart, theologian (c. 1260-1327)

To have and not to give is often worse than to steal. -Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -Bob Edwards

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failures. -Edward Eggleston

Walking is also an ambulation of mind. -Gretel Ehrlich, novelist, poet, and essayist (1946- )

Be yourself and do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. -Max Ehrmann, writer and lawyer (1872-1945)
 

Einstein (1879-1955) German-born American Physicist

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. -Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th president (1890-1969)

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. -Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th president (1890-1969)

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. -Dwight D.
Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th president (1890-1969)

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. -Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th president (1890-1969)

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits. -Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204)

It is never to late to be what you might have been. --George Eliot
You are never too old to be what you might have been. -George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. - George Eliot

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact. -George Eliot

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. -George Eliot (1819-1880)

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. -George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. -George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. -George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? -George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm But the harm does not interest them. -T.S. Eliot poet (1888-1965)

We shall never cease from exploration \
And the end of all our exploring \
Will be to arrive where we started \
And know the place for the first time. -T.S. Eliot

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper. -T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965)

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: Humility is endless. -T.S Eliot, poet (1888-1965)

The Hollow Men: Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the Shadow. -T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965)

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. - Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline. -Duke Ellington, jazz pianist, composer, and conductor (1899-1974)

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. Walter Elliott

The prevalence of suicide is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) British psychologist

Ralph Waldo Emerson American writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do. -Epictetus

A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope. -Epictetus, philosopher (c. 60-120)

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education.
To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun.
To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. –Epictetus,
50-120, Stoic Philosopher

It is impossible to live pleasurably without living prudently, honorably, and justly; or to live prudently, honorably, and justly, without living pleasurably. -Epicurus (B.C. 341-270)

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. -Epicurus, Greek philosopher (341-270 BC)

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another. -Epicurus, philosopher (c. 341-270 BCE)

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do? -Epicurus, philosopher (c. 341-270 BCE)

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. -Desiderius Erasmus

Whoever heard of a hundred thousand animals rushing together to butcher each other, as men do everywhere [during war]?" -Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)

The way of the mystic and the way of the artist are related, except that the mystic doesn't have the craft. -Jean Erdman

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. -John Erskine

 Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion. -Samuel James Ervin Jr., lawyer, judge, and senator
(1896-1985)

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. -Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, writer (1830-1916)

I think...I think it's in my basement. Let me go upstairs and check. -M.C. Escher (1898-1972)

He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat. - Robert Estabrook

Bestir yourself and then call on the gods, for heaven helps the man that laboureth. - Euripides in "Fragments

I have never been contained except I made the prison. -Mary Evans, actress(1888-1976)

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit. -Sam Ewing