Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
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He knows peace who has forgotten desire.
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He that payeth beforehand shall have his work ill done.
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One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.
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In every work / a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.
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In nature nothing can be given, all things are sold.
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Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.
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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?
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To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old and ugly subtlety.
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Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
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No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it’s his own.
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Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.
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There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only hundred per cent Americanism.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.
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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.
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Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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Only with winter-patience can we bring / The deep-desired, long-awaited spring.
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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
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Abused patience turns to fury.
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Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
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Sad patience, too near neighbor to despair.
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They also serve who only stand wait for the two-fif- teen [train].
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All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can.
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We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.
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The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.
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Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.
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The past is immortalized; that is to say, it is dead; and death is the root of all godliness and all abiding significance.
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To excel the past we must not allow ourselves to lose contact with it; on the contrary, we must feel it under our feet because we raised ourselves upon it.
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It was like the good gone times when we still believed in summer hotels and the philosophies of . popular songs.
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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks—and especially admit of different interpretations.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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We are not free to use today or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.
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The Past is such a curious Creature / To look her in the Face / A Transport may receipt us / Or a Disgrace—.
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The Things that never can come back, are several— / Childhood—some forms of Hope—the Dead— / Though Joys—like Men—may sometimes make a Journey— / And still abide---.
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The passing minute is every man’s equal possession, but what has once gone by is not ours.
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The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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Passion is like genius: a miracle.
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What to ourselves in passion we propose, / The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
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When the passions become masters, they are vices.
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All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Serving one’s own passions is the greatest slavery.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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