Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
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To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
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The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
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Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.
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The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.
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The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
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Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
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You can't deny laughter when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
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In battling evil, excess is good for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth.
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Each life makes its own imitation of immortality.
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...
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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling.
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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them.
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There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.
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With what you don't know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon.
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All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf.
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Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
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The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author.
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Genius is nothing but continued attention.
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We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of dist.
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The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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They go forth with well-developed bodies, developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart-not a cold one.
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The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them.
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Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality.
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Oh, if only I did nothing simply because of laziness.
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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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Man, is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate. J. R. R.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.
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There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.
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No other road, no other way, no day but today.
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