Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
God is Love -- I dare say.
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God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
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What passing bells for these who die as cattle Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
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I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
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Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
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Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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Always set high value on spontaneous kindness.
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Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away.
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Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account.
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I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
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As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.
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Learn that the present hour alone is men.
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To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
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Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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ESSAY -- A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Round numbers are always false.
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Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
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Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy when work is a duty, life is slavery.
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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
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We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
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Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
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I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise.
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Whose woods these are I think I know.
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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
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