Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Experience is only half of experience.
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You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
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You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.
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Keep your face always towards the sunshine—and the shadows will fall behind you.
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Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
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An uneducated person accuses others when he is doing badly; a partly educated person accuses himself; an educated person accuses neither someone else nor himself.
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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
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True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future.
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If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards.
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Know how to rely on yourself.
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There’s no greater absurdity than taking everything seriously.
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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
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We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else.
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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to “keep” by force of inertia.
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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
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The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
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The true wisdom is to always be seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of the terms.
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To say that man is made up of strength and weakness, of insight and blindness, of pettiness and grandeur, is not to draw up an indictment against him: it is to define him.
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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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Pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try to prepare one’s self to do without it.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars invisible by day.
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To do great work, a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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Be not a slave of your own past.
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A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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