Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
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Faith he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.
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'I have done my best.' That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
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Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.
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What's a man's age He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
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I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why Democracy means everybody but me.
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To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
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Motherhood all love begins and ends there.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, they rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, the proper study of Mankind is Man.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
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Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
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Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
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At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.
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Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
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Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
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How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.
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He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
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I hear many condemn these men because they were so few.
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A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
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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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