Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
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I hear many condemn these men because they were so few.
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.
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The man for whom law exists -- the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
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To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life.
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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
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We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
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One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public.
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Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life we are determined to be starved before we are hungry.
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Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
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No one is as old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
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There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
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It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
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All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head.
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The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
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None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
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Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.
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Make the most of your regrets. . . . To regret deeply is to live afresh.
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Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.
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We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
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What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
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There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.
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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
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Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, and find your eternity in each moment.
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To regret deeply is to live afresh.
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The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribably as the tints of morning or evening.
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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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What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.
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The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
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I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
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The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn.
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Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
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It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death.
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In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
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Do not consider painful what is good for you. Euripides A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
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Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
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For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results it is foolish even to desire it.
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Judge a tree from its fruit not from the leaves.
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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
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Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.
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This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
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Cowards do not count in battle they are there, but not in it.
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The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.
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