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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.
- Abraham Lincoln | Adversity Quotes
If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully,
- Abraham Lincoln | America and Americans Quotes
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln | Democracy Quotes
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln | Family and Ancestry Quotes
We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
- Abraham Lincoln | God Quotes
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln | Government and Rule Quotes
While the people retain their virtue and vigilence, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly,
can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
- Abraham Lincoln | Government and Rule Quotes
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the
existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope
and believe is to liberate the world.
- Abraham Lincoln | Government and Rule Quotes
Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own
existence?
- Abraham Lincoln | Government and Rule Quotes
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done,
but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities.
- Abraham Lincoln | Government and Rule Quotes
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty
and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must
disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
- Abraham Lincoln | Government and Rule Quotes
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
- Abraham Lincoln | History and Historians Quotes
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us
strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
- Abraham Lincoln | History and Historians Quotes
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty,
and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must
disenthrall ourselves.
- Abraham Lincoln | Originality Quotes
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.
My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.
- Abraham Lincoln | Politicians Quotes
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.
- Abraham Lincoln | Politics Quotes
I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked
how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing, I'd rather walk.'
- Abraham Lincoln | The Presidency Quotes
I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if, at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth, I
shall have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
- Abraham Lincoln | The Presidency Quotes
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln | Quips and Comments Quotes
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
- Abraham Lincoln | Women Quotes
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln | Happiness Quotes
Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your
digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to
make you happy; but, my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift.
- Abraham Lincoln | Happiness Quotes
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln | Acceptance Quotes
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every other friend on
earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
- Abraham Lincoln | Friendship Quotes
Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.
- Abraham Lincoln | God Quotes
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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.
My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.
- Abraham Lincoln | Prayer Quotes
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln | Self-Reliance Quotes
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
- Abraham Lincoln | The Past Quotes
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln | The Future Quotes
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln | Enthusiasm Quotes
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry
and enterprise.
- Abraham Lincoln | Role Models Quotes
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear
to be new views.
- Abraham Lincoln | Creating Positive Change Quotes
I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.
- Abraham Lincoln | Realistic Expectations Quotes
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
- Abraham Lincoln | Risks Quotes
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln | Success Quotes
Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln | Commitment Quotes
I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.
- Abraham Lincoln | Commitment and Belief Quotes
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to
what light I have.
- Abraham Lincoln | Action Quotes
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
- Abraham Lincoln | Action Quotes
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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- Abraham Lincoln | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe
to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln | Failures and Mistakes Quotes
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
- Abraham Lincoln | Adversity Quotes
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
- Abraham Lincoln | Worthy Victories Quotes
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
- Abraham Lincoln | Events Quotes
Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
- Abraham Lincoln | Events Quotes
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the
chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
- Abraham Lincoln | Family Quotes
Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your
digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to
make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good life.
- Abraham Lincoln | Lighten up Quotes
I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln | Lighten up Quotes
Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln | Happiness Quotes
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if
labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
- Abraham Lincoln | Capital and Labor Quotes
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
- Abraham Lincoln | Conservatism Quotes
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool
all of the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln | Deception Quotes
Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
- Abraham Lincoln | Democracy Quotes
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we
understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln | Duty Quotes
Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in
liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
- Abraham Lincoln | Equality Quotes
Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we
understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln | Faith Quotes
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot long retain it.
- Abraham Lincoln | Cowardice Quotes
... That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.
- Abraham Lincoln | Cowardice Quotes
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of
Ewer, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at st have one friend left, and that friend shall be down
inside of me.
- Abraham Lincoln | Friends Quotes
"We trust, Sir, that God is on our side." "It is more important to know that we are on God's side."
- Abraham Lincoln | Glory Quotes
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln | Government Quotes
A house divided against itself cannot stand�I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-
slave and half-free.
- Abraham Lincoln | Government Quotes
You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most solemn
one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it.
- Abraham Lincoln | Oath Quotes
This struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our
institutions.
- Abraham Lincoln | Office Quotes
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of
justice.
- Abraham Lincoln | Opinion Quotes
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a
new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish
from the earth.
- Abraham Lincoln | People Quotes
God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln | People Quotes
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool
all of the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln | People Quotes
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of
the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right
to dismember or overthrow it.
- Abraham Lincoln | Revolution Quotes
Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we
understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln | Right Quotes
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
- Abraham Lincoln | Slavery Quotes
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But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave
men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
- Abraham Lincoln | Soldier Quotes
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Albert Camus Quotes and Quotations
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.
The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he
is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should
like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
As a remedy to life in society, I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another, and
in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their
disadvantage.
Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence,
everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire,
inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
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An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
Politics, and the fate of mankind, are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another, and
in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained
in the good opinion they have of themselves.
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and
qualities. ... And above all, accept these things.
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives
have one.
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eter1nal youth.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and
qualities. ... And, above all, accept these things.
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives
have one.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives
have one.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
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Albert Einstein Quotes and Quotations
Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too
much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German, and France will declare
that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and
Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men,
living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.
Most people go on living their everyday life: frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy
that has been performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no
personality.
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It is the theory that decides what can be observed.
The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people
who don't do anything about it.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
As far as the laws of Mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do
not refer to reality.
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically
uniform system of thought.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am
right,
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A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than
corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not
in what he is able to receive.
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a
minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
The deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the
incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
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Everything should be made as simple as possible ... but not simpler.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the
mind.
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a
minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than
corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives, and not
in what he is able to receive.
I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am
right.
I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am
right.
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No, this trick won't work. . . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics
so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
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Alexander Hamilton Quotes and Quotations
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be
permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one
part of society against the injustice of the other part.
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Alexander Pope Quotes and Quotations
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
Thus education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is man.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest.
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
The learned is happy, nature to explore, the fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs. What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven.
The ruling passion, be it what it will, the ruling passion conquers reason still.
A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practise it.
Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night.
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.
False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary
occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
How shall I love the sin, yet keep the sense, And love the offender, yet detest the offence?
I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who
has not.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
All seems infected that the infected spy, as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk, at least, before they dance.
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which
he likes least.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul.
'Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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To err is human, to forgive, divine.
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; Their shallow draughts
intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell
where I lie.
An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him.
The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
If I am right, Thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better
way!
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at
the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's bless'd.
Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heav'n.
True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes and Quotations
Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the
spiritual needs of his neighbour.
Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should
be.
Epitaph, n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
Education, n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Destiny, n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
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History, n: an account mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly
knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Acquaintance, n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain
other kinds that you know nothing about.
Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.
Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves,
making, in all, two.
Philanthropist: a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience
is picking his pocket.
Painting, n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
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Peace: in international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's
neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
Commendation, n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble, but do not equal, our own.
Pray, v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Heathen, n. A beknighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
Infidel, n: in New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.
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Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.
A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distin-quished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace
them with others.
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Anais Nin Quotes and Quotations
A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of
eventually being fought.
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer
shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in,
make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting
that a new world is born.
[Families] are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not
destroyed.
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I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough
in himself.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual
meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of
others. She does not dare to be herself.
Beware of allowing a tactless word, rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's
faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one
should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw
away what has no dynamic, living use.
One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's
faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
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I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always
changes me.
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of
others. She does not dare to be herself.
There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was
drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because
they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness,
curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were
masters of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination.
Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like
a laborious mosaic.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of
blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of
tarnishing.
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Aristotle Quotes and Quotations
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of
character.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour, for a subject which will not bear raillery is
suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence
Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another,
not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to
supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; the hardest victory is the
victory over self.
We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing
brave actions.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves
different modes of life.
Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
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Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may ... meet with great misfortunes.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
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Man is by nature a civic animal.
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Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes and Quotations
We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before
them and wait till they speak to us.
The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man
more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a
letter from him.
Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.
Fame is something which must be won; honour is something which must not be lost.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on
either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the
present, does it not tell us what the future will be?
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is
opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.
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The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is
raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.
Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and
pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness
in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it
has been free from suffering, from positive evil.
I observed once to Goethe ... that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is
away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the
friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot
always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself."
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Pride ... is the direct appreciation of oneself.
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and
pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and subject to chance.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be
demanded back the next hour.
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to
rest and sleep a little death.
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to
rest and sleep a little death.
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, and to a certain extent
sacred.
Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.
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The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity, for whilst all other animals shun man
more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be
demanded back the next hour.
It is in trifles, and when he is off his guard, that a man best shows his character.
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Baltasar Gracian Quotes and Quotations
Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.
Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an
ape, at eighty, nothing at all.
'No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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Time and I against any two.
A sage has one advantage; he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and
character are respected.
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Begin with another's to end with your own.
If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.
A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.
There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it
is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune, the very
ventilation of the soul.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence
may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
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Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it.
Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who
push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck,
and to effectively gain her favor.
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it.
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One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.
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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes and Quotations
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse
the minds of others.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth
even to old age.
Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the
mind of others.
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
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The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lords, am on the side of the angels.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an
unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous
system of those who have no heart.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents, and
man is more powerful than matter.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create
ourselves.
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Everything comes if a man will only wait.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create
ourselves.
Worry is a god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it
takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an
advantage.
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
We are all born for love; it is the principle of existence and its only end.
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I feel a very unusual sensation�if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
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Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country,
and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civi-lizers of man.
For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
We are all born for love, ... It is the principle of existence and its only end.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.
I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes and Quotations
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth
writing.
A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich?
He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I
would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich?
He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it
yourself.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of
good fortune that happen but seldom.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave
con-tently.
If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.
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Work as if you were to live one hundred years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it
yourself.
Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never
found again.
Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little
advantages that occur every day.
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Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you
resolve.
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When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each
one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro
and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry,
sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry.
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Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry.
Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little
advantages that occur every day.
A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the
horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune, for our faculties then
undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around
lonely.
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He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He
resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider
was lost; being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horseshoe nail.
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Little boats should keep near shore.
Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth
writing.
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There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
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If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Let they child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
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The proud hate pride�in others.
If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it?
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
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A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes and Quotations
The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing
becomes what human beings have achieved.
The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty.
It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of a
sculpture.
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of
it.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him
like flies on a summer day.
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly, I think, because it is so satisfying to
our sadistic impulses.
The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.
Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the
West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.
Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do.
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of
unhappiness.
The true spirit of delight, the exultation, the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the
highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to
dissolve all friendships.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured
with patient resignation.
In all affairs, love, religion, politics or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on
things you have long taken for granted.
Real life is to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean
that if you are happy you will be good.
There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.
We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and the other which
we practice but seldom preach.
One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison,
but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
To teach how to live with uncertainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief
thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search
for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that
his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Simpson succeeded in proving that there was no harm in giving anaesthetics to men, because God put
Adam into a deep sleep when He extracted his rib. But male ecclesiastics remained unconvinced as regards
the sufferings of women, at any rate in childbirth.
No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.
Work is of two kinds: first, altering a position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such
matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill-paid; the second is pleasant
and highly paid.
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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances, it is difficult not to demand of life
more than it has to give.
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men
this comes chiefly through their work.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can
live.
Real life is, to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not endured
with patient resignation.
Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to
feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.
The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring
forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.
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Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear
of it.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Real life is, to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence
of a great fear.
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing
anxiety.
To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing
that philosophy can do.
Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably
leave him a prey to boredom.
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men
this comes chiefly through their work.
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of
being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things
and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is very important.
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of
unhappiness.
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C. S. Lewis Quotes and Quotations
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot
be is moderately important.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see
everything by it.
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of
highest reality.
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty miles an hour, whatever he does,
whoever he is.
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without
milestones, without signposts.
A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others.
Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.
Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very
nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be
itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.
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True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its
threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply
there.
In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did
not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does,
whoever he is.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does,
whoever he is.
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All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All
right, then, have it your way."
Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we
find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to
love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good
turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much
more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we
find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to
love him.
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Calvin Coolidge Quotes and Quotations
No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave.
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.
The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced - it can
not be told.
I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them.
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than
unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the
world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they
reach you.
Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than
unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will
not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave
mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by
every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always
a guarantee of peace.
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Carl Sandburg Quotes and Quotations
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a
moment.
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
Slang is language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands - and goes to work.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be
careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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The past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now.
There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere.
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in
one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Love your neighbor as yourself, but don't take down the fence.
I'm an idealist: I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes and Quotations
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy and by religion.
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as
despair.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know and not be known, live in a
city.
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold, and the other
to be buried.
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed.
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over
will be yours.
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair
their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting and retain them
without preaching are Wealth, Health and Power.
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it.
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy
in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far
more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art,
which he who feels least will most excel in.
A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weather
cock, and assumes 10 different positions in a day.
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest
flame.
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him
who begs his daily bread.
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable
than most men.
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was
too little for Alexander.
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
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He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here
and the highest happiness later.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him
who begs his daily bread.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most
men throw away.
Men spend their lives in anticipation, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time.
But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of
pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that
both are soured by age.
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as
despair.
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and
meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the
weathercock, and assumes ten different positions in a day.
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which
despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the
camp; the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man, both are necessary.
Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
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Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.
Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is
produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is
produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants
more.
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Charles Darwin Quotes and Quotations
I have called the principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved by the term of Natural
Selection.
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate and is
sometimes equally convenient.
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term natural
selection.
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the "Survival of the fittest", is more accurate, and is
sometimes equally convenient.
As for future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain
agnostic.
As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague possibilities.
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like a conscience.
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Charles Dickens Quotes and Quotations
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than anything I have ever done; it is a far, far, better rest that I go to, than
I have ever known.
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that
conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is
anything to be got by it.
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the
wrong man's head off.
He had but one eye, and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
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Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
"It was as true", said Mr. Barkus, "as taxes is. And nothing is truer than them."
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many-not on your past misfortunes, of which
all men have some.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which
all men have some.
Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place, his work
noiseless, and his hands are mutes.
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was
now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house,
"in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression.
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Once a gentleman, always a gentleman.
"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is a ass, a idiot."
"It was as true," said Mr. Barkis,... "as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them."
I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
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Confucius Quotes and Quotations
The way of a superior man is threefold: Virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities;
bold, he is free from fear.
The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later.
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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.
It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
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If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from
perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.
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D. H. Lawrence Quotes and Quotations
Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of
his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the
marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.
The young Cambridge group, the group that stood for "freedom" and flannel trousers and flannel shirts open
at the neck, and a well-bred sort of emotional anarchy, and a whispering, murmuring, sort of voice, and an
ultra-sensitive sort of manner.
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such
lovely language.
Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?
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One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one
up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.
In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather
feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And
then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and
say it hot.
The mind can assert anything, and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional
consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
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You have striven so hard, and so long, to compel life. Can't you now slowly change, and let life slowly drift
into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one
up to shred oranges or scrub the floor.
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having
felt sorry for itself.
Love is. the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is
found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
I never knew how soothing trees are�many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is
almost like having another being.
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Dorothy Parker Quotes and Quotations
Where, unwilling, dies the rose, Buds the new, another year.
Poisons pain you; Rivers are damp; Acid stains you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; Nooses
give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live.
It cost me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha, my little dear' I say, 'Your clan will
pay me back one day.'
He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
Where's the man could ease the heart Like a satin gown?
I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
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I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.
The two most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed".
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where
there were no paths.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
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Lips that taste of tears, they say are the best for kissing.
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant� and let the air out of the
tires.
She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was
her age.
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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes and Quotations
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber
door; And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him
streaming Throws his shadow on the floor, And my soul from out that shadow, That lies floating on the floor,
Shall be lifted�nevermore.
On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, they classic face, Thy naiad airs have brought me
home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of
forgotten lore.
Of puns it has been said that those most dislike who are least able to utter them.
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Edmund Burke Quotes and Quotations
Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please
them to do, before we risk congratulations.
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving
you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their
own.
All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false reptile prudence, the result, not of caution, but of fear.
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper.
Adversity is a severe instructor. ... He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.
Our antagonist is our helper.
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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All government�indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act�is
founded on compromise and barter.
I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
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What shadows we are, what shadows we pursue!
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes and Quotations
Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face. A
gauntlet with a gift in't.
And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.
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Let no one 'til his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out, and the labor done:
Then bring your gauges.
Love doesn't make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat.
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God's in His Heaven� All's right with the world!
Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, "Italy."
I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me, I want to be forgotten even by
God.
The year's at the Spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hillside's dew-pearled; The lark's on
the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his Heaven� All's right with the world!
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Emily Dickinson Quotes and Quotations
Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me - The carriage held but just ourselves And
Immortality.
Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.
Eden is that old-fashioned House We dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode Until we drive away.
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, anytime, to him Is aristocracy.
'Hope' is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without words And never stops
- at all.
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To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee one clover, and a bee, and revery The revery alone will do, if
bees are few.
Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it proved, it proves too There was no Melody.
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
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Anger as soon as fed is dead, 'tis starving makes it fat.
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive away.
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one
pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
My only sketch, profile, of heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June-and in
it are my friends-every one of them.
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Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at
all.
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never
stops at all.
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Superiority to fate is difficult to gain, 'tis not conferred of any, but possible to earn.
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The mere sense of living is joy enough.
Love is anterior to life Posterior to death Initial of creation, and The exponent of breath.
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Erma Bombeck Quotes and Quotations
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste,
coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and
kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread
that bound us all together.
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into
big conglomerates.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course, I've got
dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and yep, they're still there.
These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to
put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage
comes in.
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left,
and could say, "I used everything you gave me."
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint�like a heartbeat.
And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like
a stone.
Family life got better and we got our car back� as soon as we put "I love Mom" on the license plate.
I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him?
When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his
hand on Sunday?
I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should
be hanging from a charm bracelet.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
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My mother phones daily to ask, "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no, she adds, "So, if you're not
too busy, call me while I'm still alive," . . . and hangs up.
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Ernest Hemingway Quotes and Quotations
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading
one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the
hell is over.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning
of the imagination.
Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a
man.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life,
it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.
The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and
all great writers have had it.
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His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience,
should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning
of the imagination.
As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it, and not be smashed by it.
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I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was
always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.
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Francis Bacon Quotes and Quotations
The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the heroical
virtue.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Knowledge is power.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are
but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator.
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I would live to study, not study to live.
The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his
griefs to his friends, but he grieveth the less.
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they see nothing but sea.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and
swift the latter is, the further he will go astray.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall
end in certainties.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
If a man looks sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes and Quotations
In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form.
Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the
consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one
cannot fly into flying.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
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Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to he who does not concern us at all.
I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is
dangerous to say No.
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He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little
physical antipathy.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any
single detail of one's life.
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Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.
Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.
Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?
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Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most
probably helps.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher
tomorrow.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one
cannot fly into flying.
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.
What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?
Insanity in individuals is something rare�but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the ru)e.
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Better know nothing than half-know many things.
Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to
surpass him?
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part, that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the
family dignity.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes and Quotations
My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them
began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well
hammered yourself.
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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man's spirit
is devil's work.
You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without
producing it.
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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the
essence of inhumanity.
I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world.
This seemed simple and very nice; but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people
were seldom lovable, but that I was not very lovable myself.
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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being
thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered
yourself.
One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in
it.
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Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our
morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes;
our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the
existing order for good reasons.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness, for it is ever imposed in the interests of the
Children.
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the
parents' first duty.
The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference; to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven
is to steer.
He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world
to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but you must get at a man through his own
religion, not through yours.
I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it
is occupation.
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a
failure, so I did ten times more work.
Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells
himself about himself.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or
not.
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This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of
being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself
to making you happy.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without
producing it.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world
to himself.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes
the same mistake about the rich man.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without
producing it.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which
you can see a noble image of yourself.
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Most people do not pray; they only beg.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are
they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and, if they can't find them, make them.
A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a
night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.
A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a
night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life
in a stationary one, and do without change.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it, you will not enjoy it there.
This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one, instead of
being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself
to making you happy.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die;
do not outlive yourself.
This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of
being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself
to making you happy.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well-
hammered yourself.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and, if they can't find them, make them.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it
is occupation.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
It is assumed that the woman must wait motionless until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the
fly.
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about
all time.
The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is
to steer.
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of
ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are
ashamed of our naked skins.
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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow
them to do.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he
can.
The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
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Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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George Eliot Quotes and Quotations
It's them that takes advantage that gets advantage i' this world.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
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Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and
yet more personal liking.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and
exclusion.
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing
but the bad taste of the smoker.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and
yet more personal liking.
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
Animals are such agreeable friends- they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to revere.
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and
treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop.
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your
own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we
feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we
feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.
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Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them
much in the same way as they tie their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape
their own deeds and alter the world a little.
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will have
it if they cannot find it.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without
Antonio.
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a
failure.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief that does not find relief in music.
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Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, pass no criticisms.
Animals are such agreeable friends�they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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George Santayana Quotes and Quotations
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last
Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I
have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden
anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And
spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than
in the turmoil of adventure.
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
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Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the
fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.
There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.
England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in
spots.
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Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a
representative of reason.
I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including
optimism.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable
experiment.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his
sensibility.
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
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There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.
By nature's kindly disposition, most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him
at all.
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted
public.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past
are content to repeat it.
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method
of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men
in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
Work and love - these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.
If all the arts aspire to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
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If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in
which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.
Before he sets out, the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities, to be served by travel. If he
drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander, ramble as a tramp. The
traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may
supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Happiness is the only sanction in life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable
experiment.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can
be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
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Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in
spots.
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark
with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place
and time.
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen
doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the part known gives us evidence enough that the unknown
part cannot be much amiss.
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
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A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according
to his interest in the present.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out, and minutely
articulated.
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George Washington Quotes and Quotations
I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this
arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit
from it.
Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well-tried before you give them your
confidence.
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Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than
in bad company.
Action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I
trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the
exigencies of the times.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your
confidence.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is
entitled to the appellation.
It [gaming] is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of
government.
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I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all
titles, the character of an "Honest Man."
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who
is going to the place of his execution.
Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.
Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad
company.
'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world�as far, I
mean, as we are now at liberty to do it.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes and Quotations
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art
of living.
Every life is a possession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat; that is progress.
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Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Faith is a certitude without proofs ... a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward
instruction.
To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned and sustained by a supreme power, to
feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be-in order with God and the universe.
This faith gives strength and calm.
Learn to ... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is
essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he
must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.
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Time wasted is a theft from God.
To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron
before it can give forth its spark.
Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour germinates no more.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
Learn to ... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which
holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. ... By accepting the human condition more
simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.
For purposes of action, nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
How, then, find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly, by
dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and
adding to one's liberty.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art
of living.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes and Quotations
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the
greatest obstacles.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let
him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand;
instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.
What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to
Jupiter.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this
incessant business.
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Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive
hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal
cousins.
If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run
for my life.
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true
knowledge.
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What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good;
be good for something.
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree,
or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
Colour, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men
of science.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.
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Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new
value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty
cheese that we are.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has
imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.
It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hear.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
We like that a sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have
drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the
ground.
The youth gets together this material to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance, a palace or temple on
earth, and at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you
are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life.
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A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in
the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal
cousins.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
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What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy
that he can?
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has
imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand. ...
Simplify, simplify.
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has
imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves.
They spring from seeds which we have sown.
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Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy
that he can?
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy
that he can?
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fall immediately, they had better
aim at something high.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has
imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you
are.
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has
imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain
him.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Gnaw your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, gnaw it still.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and
to the latest.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at
their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms, and did my duty faithfully,
though I never received one cent for it.
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that
assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is,
in fact, a subtle detraction.
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be
good for something.
When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable, and to the
citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place� a sanctum sanctorum. There is the
strength, the marrow of Nature.
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
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It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.
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Henry Ford Quotes and Quotations
It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The
greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accom plished something.
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make
today.
Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right.
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
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The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with
them, and then make our plans with confidence.
The question "Who ought to be boss" is like asking "Who ought to be tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the
man who can sing tenor.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in
this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar,
instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
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One who fears failure limits his activities.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I
believe everything will work out for the best in the end.
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Henry Kissinger Quotes and Quotations
Now when I bore people at a party, they think it's their fault.
The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless. Just as a
leader doesn't need intelligence, a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either.
A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose.
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each
believing himself in mortal peril from the other, who he assumes to have perfect vision.
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each
believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
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Henry Miller Quotes and Quotations
Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I
found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.
The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this
order.
We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
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We create our fate every day we live.
We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our
deepest impulses.
Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to
have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our
deepest impulses.
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The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act accordingly to their beliefs.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
The only artists for whom I would make way are�children. For me the paintings of children belong side by
side with the works of the masters.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes and Quotations
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Each morning sees some task begun Each evening sees it close. Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose.
To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life, sorrow and suffering
enough to disarm all hostility.
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
The heights by men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions
slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
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A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles
the rain.
Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.
Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think.
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something
nobler we attain.
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The present is the blocks with which we build.
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to
meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done,
has earned a night's repose.
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to
wait.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime; and, departing, leave behind us, footprints
on the sands of time.
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Act-act in the living present!
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their
companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate,
you are sure to wake up somebody.
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their
companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen.
Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to
wait.
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their
companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate,
you are sure to wake up somebody.
Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, �act in the living Present! Heart
within and God o'erhead.
Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to
wait.
Be still, sad heart, and cease repining, Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of
all; Into each life some rain must fall,� Some days must be dark and dreary.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Thou, too, sail on, O Shipof State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the
hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints
on the sands of time.
The night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And
as silently steal away.
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All things must change To something new, to something strange.
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are
triumph and defeat.
There was a little girl, And she had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead; When she was good she
was very, very good, When she was bad she was horrid.
I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of
peace on earth, good-will to men!
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints
on the sands of time.
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead!
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Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto
his own.
When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just.
And the night shall be filled with music And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the
Arabs, And as silently steal away.
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Be noble in every thought And in every deed!
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.
Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate
of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of
men, And bring them back to heaven again.
Came the Spring with all its splendor All its birds and all its blossoms, All its flowers, and leaves, and
grasses.
Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of
the angels.
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As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.
Oh, the long and dreary Winter! Oh, the cold and cruel Winter!
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams With its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story
without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes and Quotations
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or
community than the editorial columns are.
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of
becoming better.
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the
right door.
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Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such
that few ripen at the top.
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or
veneration.
It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be
rid of it.
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile, some have a
sad expression, some are pensive and diffident, others again are plain, honest and upright.
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it
with a 'but'.
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation,
put in the right spot.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the
other from a strong won't.
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is
how.
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be
like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.
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The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the
magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart... will find, in every hour, some heavenly
blessings.
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track ... an inch between wreck and
smooth, rolling prosperity.
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there
must be a vent.
Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling,
or vulgar we may deem it, which, if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and
be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the
whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied the man.
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
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Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling,
or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and
be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the
whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends
today, enjoy it and bless God for it.
Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be
cheated out of it.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart... will find, in every hour, some heavenly
blessings.
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper
occasions.
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Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies, new contrasts, new
combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each
other, to their work, to surrounding objects.
A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for
him.
Fear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of
danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.
Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor
in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from
a strong won't.
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men
invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good
cause.
Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way too.
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human
owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts
all human actions into two classes�openly bad and secretly bad.
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men
invincible.
There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
Flowers may beckon towards us, but they speak toward heaven and God.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.
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Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a
machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine
augments the power of a man and the well being of mankind.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
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Homer Quotes and Quotations
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
A councillor ought not to sleep the whole night through - a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who
has many responsibilities.
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.
There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.
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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
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Light is the task when many share the toil.
Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell, whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts.
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Honore de Balzac Quotes and Quotations
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy
and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds
would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain.
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Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we
are.
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we
are.
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is
seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye!
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.
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Isaac Watts Quotes and Quotations
Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers, exceed me still.
To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual
wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and
glorious, is manly and divine.
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, our own meditation
must form our judgement.
Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently
falling on thy head.
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening
flower.
For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
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Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently
falling on thy head.
Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber! Holy angels guard they bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently
falling on thy head.
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James Russell Lowell Quotes and Quotations
There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your
overcoat.
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!
In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write, can surely review.
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is
sixteen pounds to the square inch.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
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A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him:
and tolerating none in you, which is a great comfort in the long run.
May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with
eastern wind.
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.
Though old the thought and oft exprest, 'tis his at last who says it best.
Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and
be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on
your overcoat.
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Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed ... if we only knew it. What
incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in.
Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weather is that which is woven of conviction.
I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below
conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
One day, with life and heart, is more than time enough to find a world.
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that
darkness and that light.
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; then let it come.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that
darkness and that light.
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure
takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth,
which God has set in all men's souls.
In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely
action.
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics,
almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
Nature they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter
born of woman.
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never
come.
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in
tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who dare not be In the right
with two or three.
In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
Ez for war, I call it murder,� There you hev it plain and flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment
for that.
No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him; there is always work, And tools to work
withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil!
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Jean de la Fontaine Quotes and Quotations
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats; neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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In this world we must help one another.
What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the
embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, whereas I should
keep to the butcher's trade.
One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, whereas I should
keep to the butcher's trade.
Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for
something.
Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "What a dust I raise."
By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
All roads lead to Rome; but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Johann von Goethe Quotes and Quotations
Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your
needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and
forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in
your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the
things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as
though t'were his own.
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as
though it were his own.
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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a
language most readily in the country where it is spoken, you study mineralogy best among miners, and so
with everything else.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
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Nothing is worth more than this day.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same
with their time.
It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that
worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of
sagacity-a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
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A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of
becoming.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has the aptitude for it or not.
Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of
his comprehension.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
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A useless life is an early death.
To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases, she
gives us greater courage.
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To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities.
If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance.
We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has the aptitude for it or not.
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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and
perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and
continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows
irresistibly greater with time.
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance.
In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance.
Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.
How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!
Austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its
purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
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Man must strive, and in striving, he must err.
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John Dryden Quotes and Quotations
Fight on, my merry men all, I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down for to bleed a while,
Then I'll rise and fight with you again.
All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
There is a pleasure sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!
I'll habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than the dull prospect of a distant good.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by
prudence.
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I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.
Damned Neuters, in their Middle way of Steering, Are neither Fish, nor Flesh, nor good Red Herring.
But far more numerous was the herd of stfch, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd today.
For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen.
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War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble.
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John F. Kennedy Quotes and Quotations
When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the
other represents opportunity.
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of
comfortable inaction.
The White House was designed by Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he
believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any
President of Irish descent. It was a long wait, but I appreciate his efforts.
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the
areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his experience. When power
corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones
of our judgement. The artist. . . faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the
individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an offensive state.
Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to
battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out,
'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty,
disease and war itself.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a
magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality.
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.
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All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days,
nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd
been saying they were.
The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its
members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise,
or due process of law, or the Australian ballot.
With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead
the land we love asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be
our own.
I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need
as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a
new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace,
proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to
which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the
world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden,
meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. All
this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this
administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. Now the trumpet summons
us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need - not as a call to battle, though embattled we are
- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in
tribulation"- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself. And
so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country .
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the
freedom of man.
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet
any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the
words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'
Too often we . . . enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help.
I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than
necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide."
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Don't let it be forgot, That once there was a spot -For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot.
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I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law.
I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their
scientists were more advanced than ours.
The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige
that the warrior does today.
Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States
government, and the people.
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope, and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain
or unchangeable.
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The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you.
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a
magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.
There is, in addition to a courage with which men die, a courage by which men must live.
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of
comfortable inaction.
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the
other represents opportunity.
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When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his
existence.
Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on.
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John Keats Quotes and Quotations
Beauty is truth - truth, beauty - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in
close relationship with beauty and truth.
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy, but there is a space of
life between, in which the soul is in ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain.
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Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, the
gnomed mine -Unweave a rainbow.
A drainless shower of light is poesy; 'tis the supreme of power; 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm.
I have met with women who I really think would like to be married to a poem, and to be given away by a
novel.
Failure ... is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to
seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall
afterward carefully avoid.
Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek
earnestly after what is true, and very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall
afterward carefully avoid.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no
more. I could be martyr'd for my religion Love is my religion And I could die for that. I could die for you.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness.
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I wish to believe in immortality�I wish to live with you forever.
Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is�Love, forgive us!�cinders, ashes, dust.
To Sorrow I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves
me dearly: She is so constant to me, and so kind.
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John Milton Quotes and Quotations
To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night. From his watchtower in the skies, Til the
dappled dawn doth rise.
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life
beyond life.
Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.
God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best; His
state Is kingly; thousands at His bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest - They also serve
who only stand and wait.
For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible.
None can love freedom heartily, but good men - the rest love not freedom, but licence.
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Reason is also choice.
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right and well-managed.
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life
beyond life.
As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but
he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Servant of God, well done! Well hast thou fought The better fight.
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Where more is meant than meets the ear.
A heaven on earth.
Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other
liberties.
So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine!
Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.
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Peace hath her victories, No less renowned than war.
Wickedness is weakness.
Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
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John Ruskin Quotes and Quotations
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies for instance.
The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed
by it.
There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and
the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
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No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but
people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is
habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor or erring habits of
life.
When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am
happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it
sweet.
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the color-petals out of a fruitful
flower.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing
as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am
happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it
sweet.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad
weather, only different kinds of good weather.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at
last unveil.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing
as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at
last unveil.
When men are rightfully occupied, then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a
fruitful garden.
The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily
used will be a gift also to his race.
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest
catastrophes to the love of pleasure.
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God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for everything He wants us to do.
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the color-petals out of a fruitful
flower.
All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another; and is precious according to the
greatness of the soul that utters it.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing
as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for everything He wants us to do.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.
Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the
highest lights.
Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together;
almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its infinity.
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Jonathan Swift Quotes and Quotations
When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or
ceremony, as men do to a whore.
Dignity, high station, or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a
distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.
Zsa Zsa Gabor, when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest, said "She'll never admit it, but I
believe it is Mama." When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's
leavings.
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in
confederacy against him.
When the world has once begun to use us ill, and afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple
or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
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Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools - Yet now and then your men of wit Will
condescend to take a bit.
Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all
that travel by land, or by water.
Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
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A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying ... that he is
wiser today than yesterday.
Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.
We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same.
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the
accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest
persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow
upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind and do more essential
service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want
shoes.
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Joseph Addison Quotes and Quotations
Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as
inconsistency.
If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave it,
when I am summoned out of it, with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he
might be than he really is.
True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the
enjoyment of one's self; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversations of a few select companions.
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good nature, or something which must
bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason, mankind have been forced to invent a kind of
artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good Breeding.
Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts, Old age is slow in both.
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below.
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Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them,
are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope
for.
True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the
friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and
disappointments.
A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.
True happiness ... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the
friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy
by his happiness.
The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy
by his happiness.
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty
acts in a uniform manner.
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have
patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief.
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope
for.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along
life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's a very next step to being dull.
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Kahlil Gibran Quotes and Quotations
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a
master.
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should
leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep,
and in writing the last line of your poem.
Yes, there is a Nirvanah: it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep,
and in writing the last line of your poem.
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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in
your days of abundance.
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my
days have a price.
Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
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Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own
destruction.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret,
surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up
the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind.
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing
we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an
impulse in the heart of a woman.
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in
your days of abundance.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in
your days of abundance.
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Leo Tolstoy Quotes and Quotations
Art is a human activity, consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of external signs, hands on to
others feelings he has worked through, and other people are infected by these feelings and also experience
them.
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.
Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his
existence.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Faith is the force of life.
I am used to praying when I am alone, thank God. But when I come together with other people, when I need
more than ever to pray, I still cannot get used to it.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
To love one's neighbors, to love one's enemies, to love everything�to love God in all His
manifestations�human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.
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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its
haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars.
Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.
Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as
possible.
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Leonardo da Vinci Quotes and Quotations
The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
A good painter is to paint two main things, namely men and the working of man's mind.
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Oh Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
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Lord Byron Quotes and Quotations
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Let us have Wine and Women, Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.
Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum
betwixt a smile and tear.
I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my
library.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the
earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore.
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Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
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She walks in beauty, Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
When Bishop Berkeley said, "there was no matter," And proved it�'twas no matter what he said.
She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.
Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell!
On with the dance! Let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet.
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.
Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well.
Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after.
Hereditary boundsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great!
Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell.
Come, lay thy head upon my breast, And I will kiss thee into rest.
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When we think we lead we most are led.
A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with
here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples
peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's
head�and there is London Town.
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence.
And after all, what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade.
He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.
Soprano, basso, even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.
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It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard; It is the hour when lovers' vows
Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.
Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well.
His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."
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Here's a sigh to those who love me And a smile to those who hate; And whatever sky's above me, Here's a
heart for every fate.
'Tis strange�but true; for truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction.
Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home.
Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain,�
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.
In her first passion woman loves her lover; In all the others, all she loves is love.
There is a tide in the affairs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads�God knows where.
Tis enough� Who listens once will listen twice; Her heart be sure is not of ice, And one refusal no rebuff.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a
patient knee.
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear That which
disfigures it.
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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes and Quotations
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the
world's problems.
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of
necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving.
It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour, his
religion, his soul, and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover
impotence.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent
instrument of action.
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.
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Where there is love there is life.
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Marcus Aurelius Quotes and Quotations
There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which
today arm you against the present.
If thou workest at that which is before thee, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without
allowing anything else to distract thee, but keeping thy divine part pure, as if thou shouldst be bound to give
it back immediately; if thou holdest to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present
activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live
happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else, he should yet value his own
opinion of himself less than that of others.
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready
for an unforeseen attack.
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The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it
is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what
they are.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy
present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou
wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what
they are.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is
astonishment at anything that may happen in life.
Here is a rule to remember when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not, "This is a misfortune," but "To bear
this worthily is good fortune."
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with
whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.
Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker
after them, if you had them not.
Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.
To them that ask, where have you seen the Gods, or how do you know for certain there are Gods, that you
are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor
it.
What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies ... the real man.
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Look well into thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.
Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to dust.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what
he does himself, to make it just and holy.
To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing-here is perfection
of character.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it
is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone.
Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.
Everyman's life lies within the present, for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.
Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.
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Time is like a river of fleeting events, and its current is strong; as soon as something comes into sight, it is
swept past us, and something else takes its place, and that too will be swept away.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts ... take care that you entertain no
notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?
There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is
common to the entire universe.
This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.
Let them know a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is
astonishment at anything that may happen in life.
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Without a purpose, nothing should be done.
The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.
It is not death that a man should fear, he should fear never beginning to live.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what
they are.
A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous
activity will not follow.
If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy
present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou
wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which
you are angry and grieved.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it;
and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Accept the things To which fate binds you and Love the people with whom fate Brings you together But do
so with all your heart.
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Margaret Thatcher Quotes and Quotations
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems
of running a country.
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing
nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would
achieve nothing.
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that
there is tons of room at the top.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to
have hard work and a sense of purpose.
Pennies do not come from heaven- they have to be earned here on earth.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.
One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of
powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you- suddenly become within your own
possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too."
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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Mark Twain Quotes and Quotations
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket.
Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man
could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb
out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice, it is merely custom.
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?
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We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and
the other to get the news to you.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach
eighteen.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember
that aren't so.
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In his private heart no man much respects himself.
Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a gentleman.
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
What a good thing Adam had - when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which
isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other
person.
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
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I can live for two months on a good compliment.
In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark
shall not be taken at par.
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief
denied even to prayer.
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.
When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which
often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.
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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots
understand their own language.
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful, careless voyage.
I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind-
hearted, fat, benevolent people do.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there, lest we be like
the cat that sits down on a hot stovelid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but
also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the
lightning bug.
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief
denied even to prayer.
I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but
strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
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Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.
The fragrance of the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount,
that man isn't rich.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with
you when you are in the right.
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out.
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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which
isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and
excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.
Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the
habit of doing your duty without pain.
Lord save us all from ... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great
make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.
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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency, and a virtue, and that to climb
out of the rut is inconsistency, and a vice.
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which
isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and
inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.
From his cradle to the grave, a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save
one-to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love
is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other
person.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death.
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he said: "Yes: the little one
does."
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots
understand their own language.
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You can tell German wine from vinegar ... by the label.
I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.
There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Man�a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying
off. Chaucer is dead, Spenser is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I'm not feeling so well myself.
Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.
Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes and Quotations
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where
he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun
our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding
and enobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where
he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love
illumines it.
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Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy
people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore, agape
makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.
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Matthew Arnold Quotes and Quotations
The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us
yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.
Nature, with equal mind, sees all her sons at play, sees man control the wind, the wind sweep man away.
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery.
Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought,
to have done?
Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery!
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Miguel de Cervantes Quotes and Quotations
There are only two families in the world, as a Grandmother of mine used to say, the haves and the have-
nots.
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
Ne'er look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.
The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.
Delay always breeds danger, and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
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Said the pot to die kettle, "Get away, blackface."
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself
and God for us all.
It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than
justice.
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Make hay while the sun shines.
The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.
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Mother Teresa Quotes and Quotations
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.
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I just take one day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus.
We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.
I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.
Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other�it
doesn't matter who it is and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
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If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
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Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes and Quotations
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared
courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen
events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.
Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
How many really capable men are children more than once during the day?
10 persons who speak make more noise than 10,000 who are silent.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots.
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.
To do all that one is able to do is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.
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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the
mind.
Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
There are only two forces that unite men-fear and interest.
To do all that one is able to do is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon
one's self to destiny.
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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten, and goes on fighting.
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Ogden Nash Quotes and Quotations
Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for
you.
Senescence begins And middle age ends, The day your descendants Outnumber your friends.
Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than
any other form of speech.
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin with a grin.
Poets aren't very useful, because they aren't consumeful or very produceful.
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Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.
One bliss for which there is no match is when you itch to up and scratch.
Parsely is gharsley.
There are people who are very resourceful At being remorseful, And who apparently feel that the best way
to make friends Is to do something terrible and then make amends.
Purity is obscurity.
The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure.
Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it.
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Middle age is when you have met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone
else and usually is.
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes and Quotations
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough
to accuse.
Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long.
I'll fares the land, to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are
possessed of.
At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips
prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
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He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, emits
a lighter ray.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise to
fight again.
To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all it knew.
Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died.
At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips
prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.
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Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
I'll fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and Lords
may flourish, or may fade� A breath can make them, as a breath has made� But a bold peasantry, their
country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supplied.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes and Quotations
You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on
man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the
actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.
I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think
'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might,' infinitely more important than the vain attempt to
love one's neighbour as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus,
you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbour; you
must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier
years.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme
outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come
near their camp.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement, or read any of
those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.
Thou, oh my country, hast thy foolish ways, Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour.
Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an
enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
People who honestly mean to be true, really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to
be 'consistent'.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
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Nature, when she invented, manufactured and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the
chips that were left.
Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it
were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.
After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in
former years. There begins to be something personal about it.
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or
evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
The life of the law has not been logic, it has been experience.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
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Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them puts his head
out and embarrasses us.
A man is a kind of inverted thermometer, the bulb uppermost, and the column of self-valuation is all the time
going up and down.
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of
the race.
The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.
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The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and
causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances
and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive
evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of
the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who
deny it.
A general flavour of mild decay, but nothing local, as one may say.
So long as the body is affected through the mind, no audacious device, even of the most manifestly
dishonest character, can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or even a
partial faith.
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I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman
could not shape a husband out of.
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of
things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as
that of sentences. The author may arrange the gems effectively but their shape and lustre have been given
by the attrition of ages.
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no
oracle at all, but a man of more than average moral instincts, who if he knows anything, knows how little he
knows.
Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they
always did, they always will, and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.
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A sick man that gets talking about himself, a woman that gets talking about her baby, and an author that
begins reading out of his own book, never know when to stop.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; Carve every word before you let it fall.
Talking is like playing on the harp, there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations
as in twanging them to bring out their music.
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at the truth.
We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which
they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.
When I feel inclined to read poetry, I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as
the poetry of sentences.
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When the style is fully formed, if it has a sweet undersong, we call it beautiful, and the writer may do what he
likes in words or syntax.
The man who thinks his wife, his baby, his house, his horse, his dog, and himself severely unequalled, is
almost sure to be a good-humored person.
Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer
you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell him.
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
One unquestioned text we read, All doubt beyond, all fear above; Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can
burn or blot it: God is Love.
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Faith, as an intellectual state, is self-reliance.
The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.
The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right-it holds my golden time!
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task
he cannot achieve.
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to
be "consistent."
Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect
knowledge.
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough
of it.
The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect
knowledge.
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.
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When in doubt, do it.
If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about
yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that
bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that; one
stitch at a time taken patiently, and the pattern will come out all right, like embroidery.
For me, at least, there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great
triumph: keep the fire burning until, by and by, out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest
late.
The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before
coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is
done."
What a blessed thing it is that nature, when she invented, manufactured and patented her audiors, contrived
to make critics out of the chips that were left!
Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it
would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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Omar Khayyam Quotes and Quotations
Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about: but
evermore Came out by the same door where in I went.
Strange�is it not?�that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one
returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
Ah love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire, Would not we shatter
it to bits�and then Re-mold it nearer to the heart's desire!
Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel
half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every
Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
One thing is certain and the rest is lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.
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There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might not see.
Dust into dust, and under dust, to lie, Sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and�sans end.
Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire.
Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not
shatter it to bits�and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire?
And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it
within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright.
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
There was the door to which I found no key, There was the veil through which 1 might not see.
A book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread�and Thou Beside me singing in
All this of Pot and Potter�Tell me then, Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?
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You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a second marriage in my house; Divorced old
barren reason from my bed, And took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
0 thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with predestin'd
evil round Enmesh, and then impute my fall to sin.
And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to
it for help�for it As impotently moves as you or I.
I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell, And by and by my Soul returned to
me, And answered "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell."
Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose. That Youth's sweetscented manuscript should close! The
Nightingale that in the branches sang Ah whence and whither flown again, who knows?
The bird of time has but a little way To flutter�and the bird is on the wing.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes and Quotations
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full
benefits of their inexperience.
Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been.
If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.
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When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame
us.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time.
That would be hypocrisy.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
For he who lives more lives than one, more deaths than one must die.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Pessimist - one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not
the invisible.
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A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of
my own individuality.
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the
things it has forbidden to itself.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it
will cease to be popular.
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.
I've put my genius into my life; I've only put my talent into my works.
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will
be.
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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in
which thought hides itself, and passion has its dreams.
Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one
looks at it.
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no
friendship.
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already
have one in reserve.
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be
taken from you.
When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old�I know it is.
The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a
flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth
knowing can be taught.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time.
That would be hypocrisy.
Men know life too early, women know life too late.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious: both are disappointed.
I know not whether laws be right, Or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall
is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor
the smallest instinct about when to die.
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To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her,
and to every man as if he bored you.
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more
can you want?
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it
will cease to be popular.
There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance
so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
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Pablo Picasso Quotes and Quotations
Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was
really a typewriter.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just
goes on trying other things.
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love
the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they
must understand.
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself
about what he has seen.
Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist
would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.
When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich
and famous, you still have a few ... if you are lucky.
My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as
the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as
the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art
and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.
I'd like to live like a poor man� only with lots of money.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes and Quotations
History is: Fables agreed upon - Voltaire The biography of a few stout and earnest persons - Ralph Waldo
Emerson A vast Mississippi of falsehood - Matthew Arnold A confused heap of facts - Lord Chesterfield A
cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man -
Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a Being beyond its
limits capable of creating it.
First our pleasures die�and then Our hopes, and then our fears�and when These are dead, the debt is
due, Dust claims dust�and we die too.
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
See! the mountains kiss high heaven, And the waves clasp one another; No sister flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea:� What are all
these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me?
Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse
strains of unpremeditated art.
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January grey is here, Like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, March with grief doth howl and
rave, And April weeps�but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.
That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.
How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting
drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mold
a pin, or fabricate a nail!
How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, In unremitting
drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To
mould a pin, or fabricate a nail!
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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes and Quotations
Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.
Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many
unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.
Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more
strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is
accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living
side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for
each to see the other whole and against a wide sky.
Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from
afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?
Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is
practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you
cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call
forth its riches.
Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call
forth its riches.
Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses
with greater confidence than our joys. For they are moments when something new has entered into us,
something unknown.
Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every
moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Nothing in this world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many
unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.
That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being in the mood, but
always forcibly to convert it into all things.
Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know
what.
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test
and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they
possess.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes and Quotations
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.
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Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its ends.
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of
suggestions, the raw material of possible poems and histories.
The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing,
and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
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Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and
divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his
shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in
hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
The question is whether suicide is the way out, or the way in.
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
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I pay the School Master, but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-
dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility, which religion is powerless to bestow.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that
is genius.
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain
alienated majesty.
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the
connection of events.
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all
his history, and his wants.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life is to furnish, watch, show it, and
keep it in repair the rest of his life.
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good
and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.
The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of
pumpkin history.
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The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, 100 things you cannot do;
but inside, the terrible freedom!
When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it
is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag.
Every man is a borrower and a mimic; life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is
made up; every debt is paid.
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of
original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.
Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them
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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.
The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there's a great difference in the beholders.
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting
impotence.
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of
doing things.
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There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for then we get rid of cant and
hypocrisy.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the
problem of the age.
The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.
Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you
cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!
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Sanity is very rare; every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.
Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to
deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part
does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque
their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.
There are some men above grief and some men below it.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in
hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.
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What is success? To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of
children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate
beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; That is
to have succeeded.
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits, otherwise he voluntarily
makes himself a great baby - so helpless and ridiculous.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have
both.
A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find
his weak point.
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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can
well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that
imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse as his portion.
Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to
be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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To fill the hour, and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.
The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him
in employment and happiness.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I
am alive.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
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There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich, who want something more; that of the
sick, who want something different; and that of the traveler, who says, "Anywhere but here."
Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because
they pass for nothing in the new places.
Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will
be too late.
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who
provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all-friends.
No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too.
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The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
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God enters by a private door into every individual.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see
the fact which he sees.
The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith.
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.
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Self-command is the main elegance.
To be simple is to be great.
It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing,
and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
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He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as
that.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be
known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
To fill the hour, that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of
its faded wardrobe?
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This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly in to the future; but that which is rolled up and muffled
in impenetrable folds is today.
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good
hours, is wisdom.
God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each,
therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.
If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His
well-being is always ahead.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
We look wishfully to emergencies, to eventful, revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our
part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads.
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They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin,
then a generous or brave action.
The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts, and what
we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the
world.
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There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They
have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can
sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like unto him wherever
he goes. What you are comes to you.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our
field of action.
A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees
the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
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When there is no vision, people perish.
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and
divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as
cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts
everything you said today.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please-you can never have
both.
Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the
instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds
him in employment and happiness.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it.
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.
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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.
Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you
endured From the evil which never arrived.
Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are
always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action
and follow it to an end requires ... courage.
Whatever you do, you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some
of the same courage which a soldier needs.
Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
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Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As
to methods there may be a million and then some, but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles
can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have
trouble.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Whatever you do, you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some
of the same courage which a soldier needs.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect.
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a
certain belief.
He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him
in employment and happiness.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are
always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action
and follow it to an end requires ... courage.
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When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his
wits; on his manhood; he has gained the facts; learned his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has
got moderation and real skill.
People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to
whom a crises, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!
When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his
wits ... he has gained facts, learned his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit, has got moderation
and real skill.
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with
necessities as hard as iron.
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Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and
eternal beauty.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we will not find it.
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is
the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is
willing to trust him.
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I
am alive.
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Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have
crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too
high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us.
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The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor
does he until he has tried.
Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself
loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.
Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.
We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.
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If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.
We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter we stand by the old; reformers in the
morning, conservers at night. Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort,
reform for truth.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and
divines.
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill!
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth
replies, I can.
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him
everywhere.
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If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or
church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hardbeaten road to his house, though it be in the
woods.
AH I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
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Man is a piece of the universe made alive.
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the
institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in.
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness,
whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
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Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.
When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his
originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.
We are reformers in Spring and Summer; in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old; reformers in the
morning, conservers at night.
Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.
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If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd; Here once the embattl'd
farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.
Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou are not my friend; I am not thine.
And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
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Robert Frost Quotes and Quotations
I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have
nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt
whatsoever.
There may be little or much beyond the grave, But the strong are saying nothing until they see.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.
At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know
that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his
side of the standing argument.
Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play
far out of gunshot.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own
discrimination - what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.
A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward
expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and
the thought has found words.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I
want the cream to rise.
All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you
almost didn't know you knew.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept.... My aim in life has always been to hold my own with
whatever's going. Not against: with.
To be social is to be forgiving.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
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There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
The middle of the road is where the white line is, and that's the worst place to drive.
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.
Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or
invent What he did with every cent.
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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes and Quotations
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.
Extreme busyness, whether at school, or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a
faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
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Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our
friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may
be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the
gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
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There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your
hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it
comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your
hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it
comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I
believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.
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To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to
prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can
reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one
day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really
means.
The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help
us to perform them with laughter and kind faces; let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely
on our business all this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored, and grant us
in the end the gift of sleep.
Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do
it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to
take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is
to keep your soul alive.
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never
exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not
now, and where you stand?
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a
fall.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a
fall.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a
fall.
A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that
he is at last entirely right.
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are
indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In every Christian
kind of place.
I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily
inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie.
Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in
tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and
loving one to anther.
Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth; and none, or almost none, for the
disenchantments of age.
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.
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Rudyard Kipling Quotes and Quotations
There was a small boy of Quebec Who was buried in snow to the neck: When they said 'Are you friz?' He
replied 'Yes, I is - But we don't call this cold in Quebec!'
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust
yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired
by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give away to hating And yet don't
look too good nor talk to wise; If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and
not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two imposters just
the same, If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose,
and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss . . . If you can talk with crowds
and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can
hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty
seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a
Man my son!
If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a
deep interest in your movements ever afterwards.
I keep six honest serving-men they taught me all I know; their names are What and Why and When and
How and Where and Who,
There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, and every single one of them is right.
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Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple
reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.
All the people like us are We, And everyone else is They.
I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know); Their names are What and Why and When and
How and Where and Who.
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.
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They're hangin' Danny Deever in the morning!
Take up the white man's burden� Send forth the best ye breed� Go bind your sons to exile To serve your
captives' need.
Sing, for faith and hope are high� None so true as you and I� Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can
never die!"
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust
yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; Yours is the Earth and
everything that's in it, And�which is more�you'll be a man, my son!
Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am,
Gunga Din.
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me
still, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
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The sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
For it's Tommy this an' Tommy that, and "Chuck 'im out, the brute." But it's "Savior of 'is country," when the
guns begin to shoot.
Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
The colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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A fool there was and he made his prayer (Even as you and I!) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We
called her the woman who did not care) But the fool he called her his lady fair� (Even as you or I!)
And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and
no one shall work for fame; But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the
Thing as he sees It, for the God of things as They Are!
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Samuel Butler Quotes and Quotations
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold
you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.
I can generally bear the separation, but I don't like the leave-taking.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practised.
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred, and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
Neither have they hearts to stay, Nor wit enough to run away.
The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.
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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public, and learning the instrument as one goes on.
It does not matter much what a man hates, provided he hates something.
An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has
written all the books.
It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can - it is perhaps because they can be
useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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The public do not know enough to be experts, yet know enough to decide between them.
A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover
it from all his forefathers.
We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work
till one is better.
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense; but some are greater nonsense than others.
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right
places.
All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its
income.
Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.
People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good, clever or
amiable.
Loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game; True as a dial to the sun, Although it be not shined
upon.
To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
All animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led
to expect.
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not
know how to forget.
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the Kingdom of Heaven, rather than
without.
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
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What runs through a person like water through a sieve.
Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than
a great sorrow ten years gone.
Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign
to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters.
It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held, and not in the dogma or want of dogma, that the
danger lies.
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.
To live is like to love: all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it.
No matter how ill we may be, nor how low we may have fallen, we should not change identity with any other
person.
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All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its
income.
People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led
to expect.
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can
have nothing certain.
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire.
To live is like to love�all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Man, unlike the animal, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not
scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Samuel Johnson Quotes and Quotations
(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free
from admirers then.
Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to
run quite true.
No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God.
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of
sentiments.
John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour.
This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.
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Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me
uneasy, and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is
associated with vice.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys
get at one end they lose at the other.
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks
Greek.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
I have found men more kind than I expected, and less just.
Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has
reached ground, encumbers him with help?
A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at
the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other a horse still.
Knowledge is of two kinds; we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
A man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
It is the just doom of laziness and a gluttony to be inactive without ease, and drowsy without tranquillity.
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with
consequences, you are to tell the truth.
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of
it.
Marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor.
It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.
As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world
miserable has always been thrown upon the women.
Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .
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Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Oats, n.s. A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.
I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to
say.
The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
As the Spanish proverb says, 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of
the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home
knowledge.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for
it.
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most
ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.
When an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we
rate them by his best.
The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to
speak the truth.
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are
original are not good.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected
sparks.
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
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It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much
happiness as possible.
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously
employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing;
when we have made it the next wish is to change again.
Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his
foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who
does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.
The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more
of either than they know how to use.
It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.
We are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep
alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef, love, like being enlivened with
champagne.
It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.
No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness of himself.
An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your
friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some
equivalent advantage on the other.
Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue.
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That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue
of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef.
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his
mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and
pity him afterwards.
An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without
cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive
desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out
for show rather than for use.
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to
supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
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Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges
and intent upon future advantages.
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this
comfort, be insupportable.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the
next wish is to change again.
Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing.
When we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
O, how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base, uncomely things it makes men do.
When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity
to use any of the others.
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is
associated with vice.
Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed
impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
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Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges
and intent upon future advantages.
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of
life.
Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with
himself, being free from flatterers.
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by
complaints.
Despair is criminal.
The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.
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The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a
larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of
souls.
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed
impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
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A fishing-rod was a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
Men are like stone jugs�you may lug them where you like by the ears.
Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To
all the lower world denied.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to
find it done at all.
The first years of man must make provision for the last.
To be of no Church is dangerous.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
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If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his
father.
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of
the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home
knowledge.
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are
the sons of heaven.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Sigmund Freud Quotes and Quotations
Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who
has accomplished a very difficult task.
It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he
has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.
A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.
Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We
cannot do without palliative remedies.
Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get in accord with them; they are legitimately what
directs his contact in the world.
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A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately
what directs his conduct in the world.
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine
soul, is "what does a woman want"?
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably
admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately
what directs his conduct in the world.
One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros
and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come
from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we
should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately
what directs his conduct in the world.
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately
what directs his conduct in the world.
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and
always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations.
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Sir Francis Bacon Quotes and Quotations
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
The best work, and of greatest merit for the public, has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
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Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.
All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as
drunkenness.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great
enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive
countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and
ornament thereunto.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to
religion.
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Reading maketh a full man.
There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave;
logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to
memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.
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Socrates Quotes and Quotations
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat.
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people
would be contented to take their own and depart.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people
would be contented to take their own and depart.
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To do is to be.
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most
people would be content to take their own and depart.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in continue firm and constant.
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet every one thinks himself sufficiently
qualified for the hardest of all trades�that of government.
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He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.
Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide
impartially.
Know thyself.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they
perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the
God they serve.
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T. S. Eliot Quotes and Quotations
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I
know it can't be much good.
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is
practically negligible.
The young feel tired at the end of an action; The old at the beginning.
In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
You have now learned to see That cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find
Possessed of various types of mind.
In my beginning is my end.
What is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place.
This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as
impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it
is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape, not from our own time - for we are bound
by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.
Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the
happiest, but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out
the best qualities of both.
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All cases are unique and very similar to others.
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted
his time and messed up his life for nothing.
The poet's mind is ... a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which
remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.
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The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most
violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull
roots with Spring rain.
April is the crudest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull
roots with spring rain.
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.
I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one
man's life.
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the
happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought
out the best qualities of both.
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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one
man's life.
What we call the beginning is often an end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where
we start from.
What is actual is actual only for one time, and only for one place.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one
man's life.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things, and you are not yet
decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes and Quotations
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to
obey it.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
I am only an average man, but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is
character!
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and
blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms,
the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of
high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall
never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
We demand that big business give people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone
engaged in big business honesdy endeavors to do right, he shall himself be given a square deal.
I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
My hat's in the ring. The fight is one and I'm stripped to the buff.
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I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel
sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left
of the other.
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Thomas Fuller Quotes and Quotations
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The mob has many heads but no brains.
Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
He that resolves to deal with none but honest men, must leave off dealing.
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He is idle that might be better employed.
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
God makes, and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man.
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Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth.
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The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Men never think their fortunes too great, nor their wit too little.
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Good is not good, where better is expected.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to
be forgiven.
If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so, too.
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
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Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
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Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations, for sleep is a recreation. Add not,
therefore, sauce to sauce. ... Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow
the head, which hath lain fallow all night, with some serious work.
Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else.
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Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high, as too low.
If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so, too.
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Better hazard once than always be in fear.
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as
silk remains.
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He that would have fruit must climb the tree.
He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.
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Sudden acquaintance brings repentance.
My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage; and half shut afterward.
We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.
Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.
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A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
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He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
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Thomas Hardy Quotes and Quotations
Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be, It exacts a full look at the Worst.
Aspects are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone.
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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
There is a good deal too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes and Quotations
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands
which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and
equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions
of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these
truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain
unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these
rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed;
that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to
alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing
its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his
property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all
the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
I hold it, that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms
in the physical.
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is
always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to meet it with
firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil, while fretting
and fuming only increase your own torments.
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.
I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
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When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our
minds to meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the
evil, while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments.
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my
family.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and
actions.
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I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of
inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the
chains of the constitution.
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public, and more trouble
to me, than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask
respecting a candidate for office would be, Does he use ardent spirits?
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my
family.
Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if He ever had a chosen people, whose breasts
He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It
would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and
the first choice of all not under those ties.
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I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over
another.
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of
the industrious.
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression
should be our first object.
The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their
friends as well as foes.
The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having
never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers
without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are
few: by resignation, none.
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought
to distrust and examine well his own opinion.
If I could not go to Heaven but with a party I would not go there at all.
The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are
few; by resignation, none.
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the
exercise of power over others.
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he
should escape.
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
A republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every
free state.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations� entangling alliances with none.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent
spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.
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Victor Hugo Quotes and Quotations
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Sorrow is a fruit; God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible
labour.
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Those who live are those who fight.
Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will
guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. ... If the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the
chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows that plan carries thread that will guide
him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will
soon reign.
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Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and
yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and
yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog
that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us
the real value of a job.
The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved�loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in
spite of ourselves.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
I had rather be hissed for a good verse than applauded for a bad one.
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which
invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.
Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
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Progress�the stride of God!
It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
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Voltaire Quotes and Quotations
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I
have left.
Ask a toad what is beauty? ... a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat
mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back.
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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
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Men argue, nature acts.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The
instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to
others and it becomes the property of all.
We offer up prayers to God only because we have made Him after our own image. We treat Him like a
Pasha, or a Sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be
possible for it to be believed.
I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one.
Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.
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Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.
There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times.
Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them.
The most beautiful of all emblems is that of God, whom Timaeus of Locris describes under the image of "A
circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."
God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.
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Better is the enemy of the good.
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal,
nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
My prayer to God is a very short one "Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous!" God has granted it.
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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know
less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of
philosophy.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do
reason.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
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You (Pindar) who possessed the talent of speaking much without saying anything.
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W. H. Auden Quotes and Quotations
Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.
What the mass media offer is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food,
forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that
he eat than that he philosophize.
Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.
Almost all of our relationships begin, and most of them continue, as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or
physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
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Any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance, however
passionate.
My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age.
You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.'
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand,
tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because, however successful he may be in
overcoming them, he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every important
choice.
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how
it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than
he can by practising it.
To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.
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The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each
has to believe by himself.
Choice of attention-to pay attention to this and ignore that-is to the inner life what choice of action is to the
outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences.
Choice of attention ... is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is
responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
Choice of attention, to pay attention to this and ignore that, is to the inner life what choice of action is to the
outer.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I
can: all of them make me laugh.
Cathedrals, Luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.
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Walt Whitman Quotes and Quotations
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long
and long, They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for
their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is
demented with the mania of owning things. Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that liveth thousands
of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
It is native personality, and that alone, that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals, or in any
distinguished collection, with aplomb -and not culture, or any intellect whatever.
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and
mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in
the street, and every one is signed by God's name, and I leave them where they are, for I know that
wheresoever I go others will punctually come for ever and ever.
Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give, I give myself.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.
Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give, I give myself.
I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I
sit content.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better
than simplicity.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes).
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night, I
mourn'd�and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out
of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad
and low, close to the ground.
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The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim
and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my captain lies, Fallen
cold and dead.
I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass.
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William Blake Quotes and Quotations
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath
did grow.
Exuberance is beauty.
The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; My business is to
create.
Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
A truth that's told with bad intent - beats all the lies you can invent.
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the scoundrel,
hypocrite and flatterer. For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
It is right it should be so, Man was made for joy and woe; And when this we rightly know, Through the world
we safely go.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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Exuberance is beauty.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves
me; I've all but riches bodily.
Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.
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William Butler Yeats Quotes and Quotations
Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced
bargainers and money-changers.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work.
Wine comes in at the mouth and love comes in at the eye; that's all we shall know for truth before we grow
old and die.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not
explain, is irresistible.
Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.
A statesman is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote; A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the
throat; So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote.
Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
Joy is the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
Florence Farr once said to me, "If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good
as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God."
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
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Joy is the will which labors, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would
not agree.
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William Cowper Quotes and Quotations
He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he
had when he was much younger.
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon
the storm.
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from
squandering ourselves for a purpose.
Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Happiness depends, as Nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright; And Satan trembles when
he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
Beware of desp'rate steps; the darkest day lived till tomorrow will have pass'd away.
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than
when we seem to be most in danger.
What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife When Friendship, love and peace combine To
stamp the marriage bond divine?
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God made the country, and man made the town.
A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can.
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon
the storm.
A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.
I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,� "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." But grant
me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper�Solitude is sweet.
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.
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Such stuff the world is made of.
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William James Quotes and Quotations
Be willing to have it so; acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences
of any misfortune.
Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable
human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to
the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his
consciousness at all.
Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident,
so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your
control' from ever trying to execute them.
An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between
one man and another, but what there is is very important.'
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.
The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of
this world is just as possible as its existence.
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Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of
uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider
order, on which she has no claim at all.
So long as the anti-militarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of
war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of hate, so long they fail to realize the full
equities of the situation.
So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline
is organized, I believe that war must have its way.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ...
and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside,
expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.
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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being
happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours.
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on
their failures by the opinion of the world.
Faith is one of the forces by which men live; the total absence of it means collapse.
The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most
adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.
Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has
been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact.
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of
our venture.
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it
works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite
conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
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The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he
must obey his impulse.
Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which
comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do
not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under
appropriate circumstances.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.
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William Shakespeare Quotes and Quotations
A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.
Why, then the world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open.
Action is eloquence.
Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.
His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up
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What is the city but the people?
Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death.
No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me
tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world.
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their
entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.
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I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my
setting.
If you can look into the seeds of time and say, which grain will grow, and which will not, speak then to me.
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.
Men must endure their going hence, even as their coming hither; ripeness is all.
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Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a
leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No.
What is honour? A word.
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight 'til it be morrow.
God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of
husbandry.
For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York.
Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that
we are underlings.
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Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt
minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast.
Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard.
For some must watch, while some must sleep; thus runs the world away.
When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, But in battalions!
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
When I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me; Shall be my brother.
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I must be cruel Only to be kind.
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety; other women cloy the appetites they feed, but
she makes hungry where most she satisfies.
If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou striv'est to get; and what thou hast, forget'est.
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Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.
We, ignorant of ourselves, beg often our own harms, which the wise powers deny us for our good.
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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
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Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd slave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt
minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
How poor are they that have not patience? What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
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Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes Gods, and meaner creatures kings.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
Things done well and with care exempt themselves from fear.
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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail.
Action is eloquence.
Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd a
sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving
sweet.
If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so
die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old.
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A light heart lives long.
Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his
head.
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says
he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of
husbandry.
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft
proclaims the man.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the
pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good,
content with my harm.
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He is well paid that is well satisfied.
To die:�to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.
Death lies on her, like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
There is a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of
outrageous fortune; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?
Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.
We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.
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The royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-
paradise, This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of
men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea.
The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.
And oftentimes, excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse,� As patches, set upon a
little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patched.
God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night.
I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
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O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
I am wealthy in my friends.
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Foul whisperings are abroad.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at; I am not what I am.
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Help me, Cassius, or I sink!
Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.
This was the most unkindest cut of all; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong
than traitor's arm, Quite vanquish'd him; then burst his mighty heart.
That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true 'tis pity; And pity 'tis 'tis true.
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy,
pleas-ance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
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Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.
I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same
means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! O wise young judge, how I do honor thee!
Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
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O judgment! thou are fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!
The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try.
This bond is forfeit; And lawfully by this the Jew may claim A pound of flesh.
Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience
with injustice is corrupted.
Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
And seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
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The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them�but not for love.
Ay me! for aught that I ever could read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did
run smooth.
Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die. Take him, and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the
face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express
and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the
paragon of animals! And, yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me: no, nor woman
neidier, though by your smiling, you seem to say so.
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world,
This was a man!
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed; maids are May when they are maids, but the sky
changes when they are wives.
Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the
force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But
mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
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Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
The worst is not sSo long as we can say "This is the worst."
The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night, Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.
Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange and unnatural.
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is no moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons,
stratagems and spoils.
But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor
indeed.
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What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth, But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.
I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.
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The insolence of office.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Good-night, good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good-night till it be morrow.
And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
There was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.
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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
He that doth the ravens feed. Yea, providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age!
He that doth the ravens feed. Yea, providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age!
There is a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
I have no other but a woman's reason. I think him so because I think him so.
The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted
clay.
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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I am disgrac'd, impeach'd and baffled here,� Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear.
To sleep! perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When
we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.
If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
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Sweets to the sweet.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
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The time is out of joint.
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
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Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.
Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore; To one
thing constant never.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.
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She's beautiful and therefore to be woo'd: She is a woman, therefore to be won.
O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown
and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo: but else, not for the world.
My word fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there, And none so poor
to do him reverence.
Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical.
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.
Why, then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer
morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's
breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age
is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.
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William Wordsworth Quotes and Quotations
That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think
What Man has made of Man.
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by
which he is to be relished.
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together-humble
dependence and manly independence; humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
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Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together-humble
dependence and manly independence: humble dependence on God, and manly reliance on self.
That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which
Milton held.
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She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a
moment's ornament.
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Winston Churchill Quotes and Quotations
That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect
and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have
been tried from time to time.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I
make up for lost time when I come home.
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We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always
just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the
nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to
give the roar.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for
the poor browns.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once.
Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack!
It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty - never give
in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
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There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are
great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its
Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: "This was their finest hour."
We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with
growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the
streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best
alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing
with the inevitable.
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If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty;
mercy; hope.
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you
will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
Never run away from anything. Never!
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which never happened.
Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without
victory there is no survival.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without
victory there is no survival.
Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never.... In nothing great or small, large or petty, never
give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!
We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing
strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we
shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the halls.
We shall never surrender.
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl�no superior alternative has
yet been found.
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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Most people hate the taste of beer to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been
able to overcome.
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another
matter.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so -bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its
Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Terminological inexactitude
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Woodrow Wilson Quotes and Quotations
The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new
thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.
When Andrew Jackson died someone asked a friend if he thought Old Hickory would go to heaven. 'He will if
he wants to,' was the reply. On his death bed Disraeli declined a visit from Queen Victoria. 'No, it is better
not', he said, 'she would only ask me to take a message to Albert.' I am a broken machine. I am ready to go.
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give
a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw
the Government of the United States.
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I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of
fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to
cross him.
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of
political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no domination. We seek no
indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely give. We are but one of
the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure
as the faith and freedom of nations can make them.
I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of
human traits and red corpuscles.
It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all
wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall
fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts - for democracy.
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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the
whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.
The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of
liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, "A free field and no favor."
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
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Woody Allen Quotes and Quotations
Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, "Be fruitful, and multiply." But not in those words.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
The worst that you can say about him (God) is that basically he's an underachiever.
I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year, then I'm going to Lourdes.
Those modern analysts, they charge so much! In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For
ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that
included a choice of any two vegetables.
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The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it.
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I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to
me.
You can live to be a hundred, if you give up all the things that make you want to live to a hundred.
I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her.
I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him.
The best thing to do is to behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen and under, try not to go
bald.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying.
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I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared
legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.
If only God would give me a clear sign, like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans.
If I could only see one miracle, just one miracle. Like a burning bush, or the seas part, or my uncle Sasha
pick up a check.
This book was collected and printed through the internet, I just introduced it!
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