Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
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If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag wash it.
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Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
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You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
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One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
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Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamor for, and constantly quarrel with.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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'This neither here nor there.
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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A man in all the world's new fashion planted, that hath a mint of phrases in his brain.
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Yet do I fear thy nature it is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
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Now cracks a noble heart.
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He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
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Hamlet Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel Polonius By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.
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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.
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We are advertised by our loving friends.
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Since Cleopatra died, I have lived in such dishonor that the gods detest my baseness.
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The sands are numbered that make up my life.
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
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Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice take each man's censure but reserve thy judgment.
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I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
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To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.
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To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
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When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence so sweet is zealous contemplation.
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Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.
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The earth has music for those who listen.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
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Thou should not have been old till thou had been wise.
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Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.
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The quality of mercy is not strained It dropped as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.
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He was my friend, faithful, and just to me But Brutus says, he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man.
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The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
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Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo Deny thy father, and refuse thy name...
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But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture, tell them that God bids us do good for evil.
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Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.
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Partying is such sweet sorrow.
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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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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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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.
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