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Miscellaneous Quotes
- "My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter."
By: Abraham Lincoln Miscellaneous Quotes
- "I suppose that everyone of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next."
By: A.A. Milne Miscellaneous Quotes
- "Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man."
By: Albert Camus Miscellaneous Quotes
- "The absurd is clear reason recognizing its limits."
By: Albert Camus Miscellaneous Quotes
- "Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world."
By: Albert Camus Miscellaneous Quotes
- "To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge."
By: Albert Camus Miscellaneous Quotes
- "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You."
By: Walt Whitman Miscellaneous Quotes
- "Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy."
By: William Shakespeare Miscellaneous Quotes
- "My nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand."
By: William Shakespeare Miscellaneous Quotes
- "Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery."
By: William Shakespeare Miscellaneous Quotes
- "Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared - this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth."
By: Friedrich Nietzsche Miscellaneous Quotes
- "I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could."
By: Orson Welles Miscellaneous Quotes
- "I dwell in Possibility A fairer house than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior - for Doors."
By: Emily Dickinson Miscellaneous Quotes
- "My mother said to me,If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
By: Pablo Picasso Miscellaneous Quotes
- "To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man."
By: Oliver Wendell Holmes Miscellaneous Quotes
- "Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it out of wood, you must make it out of words."
By: Oliver Wendell Holmes Miscellaneous Quotes
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- "The man who consecrates his hours
By vig'rous effort and an honest aim,
At once he draws the sting of life and death;
He walks with nature and her paths are peace."
By: Edward Young, Night Thoughts
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- "The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength and skill."
By: William Wordsworth,
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- "Whom neither shape of danger can dismay,
Nor thought of tender happiness betray."
By: William Wordsworth,
Character of a Happy Warrior (l. 72) Character Quotes
- "But who, if he be called upon to face
Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined
Great issues, good or bad for humankind,
Is happy as a lover."
By: William Wordsworth,
Character of a Happy Warrior (l. 48) Character Quotes
- "One that would peep and botanize
Upon his mother's grave."
By: William Wordsworth, A Poet's Epitaph
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- "These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together,--manly dependence and manly independence, manly reliance and manly self-reliance."
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- "Only the shallow know themselves."
By: Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) Character Quotes
- "Formed on the good old plan,
A true and brave and downright honest man!
He blew no trumpet in the market-place,
Nor in the church with hypocritic face
Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace;
Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will
What others talked of while their hands were still."
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