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Elbert Hubbard
June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he met early success as a ...
Blaise Pascal
June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by ...
Charles Spurgeon
June 19, 1834 – January 31, 1892
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was a British Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe
June 14, 1811 – July 1896
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was a depiction of life for African ...
Lillian Hellman
June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984
People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Florence "Lilly" Hellman was an American dramatist and screenwriter famously blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American ...
Jerzy Kosinski
June 14, 1933 – May 3, 1991
The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
Jerzy KosiÅ„ski, born Józef Lewinkopf, was an award-winning Polish-American novelist and two-time President of the American Chapter of ...
Charles Eames
June 17, 1907 – August 21, 1978
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
Charles Ormand Eames war ein US-amerikanischer Designer und Architekt. Gemeinsam mit seiner Frau Ray Eames trug er wesentlich zur ...
Igor Stravinsky
June 17, 1882 – April 6, 1971
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor. He is widely considered to be one of the most important and ...
Jose Rizal
June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896
The youth is the hope of our future.
José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist, novelist, poet, ophthalmologist, journalist, and revolutionary. ...
Anna Letitia Barbauld
June 20, 1743 – March 9, 1825
We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
Anna Laetitia Barbauld was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and children's author. A "woman of letters" who ...
M. C. Escher
June 17, 1898 – March 27, 1972
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
Maurits Cornelis Escher, usually referred to as M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired ...
Errol Flynn
June 20, 1909 – October 14, 1959
My father was never anti-anything in our house.
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn was an Australian-American actor. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his ...