Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more
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There is no education like adversity.
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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Never ruin an apology with an excuse
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When a man tells you he got rich by hard work, ask him whose.
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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Only the educated are free
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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Well begun is half done.
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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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No one loves the man whom he fears.
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He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
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Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
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As you cannot do what you want, want what you can do.
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The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still .entangled with the desire for ownership.
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Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life—the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it—can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them.
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Can one be a saint without God? That’s the problem, in fact the only problem, I’m up against today.
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What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
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Men’s men: gentle or simple, they’re much of a muchness.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.
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If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings and resolves are the last of their kind.
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We just find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest—whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories—comes afterward.
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A woman’s hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
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Friendships begin with liking 0£ gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.
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Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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It’s them as take advantage that get advantage in this world.
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The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.
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No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
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Half the sorrows of women would be kverted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless—nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.
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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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I’ve never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Avarice, the spur of industry.
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