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G K Chesterton: When we really...

G K Chesterton: When we really...

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very...

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G K Chesterton: Boyhood is a...

G K Chesterton: Boyhood is a...

Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what...

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G K Chesterton: A cosmic philosophy...

G K Chesterton: A cosmic philosophy...

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no...

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G K Chesterton: Mankind is not...

G K Chesterton: Mankind is not...

Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our...

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G K Chesterton: There is no...

G K Chesterton: There is no...

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested...

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G K Chesterton: The cosmos is...

G K Chesterton: The cosmos is...

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

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Honore de Balzac: I prefer thought...

Honore de Balzac: I prefer thought...

I prefer thought to action, an idea to an event, reflection to activity.

Source: In...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: You mentioned your...

Arthur Conan Doyle: You mentioned your...

You mentioned your name as if I should recognise it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a...

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Henry David Thoreau: We do not...

Henry David Thoreau: We do not...

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

Source: In Webster's...

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Mahatma Gandhi: Prayer is not...

Mahatma Gandhi: Prayer is not...

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. . . . It is better in...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: As the Sandwich...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: As the Sandwich...

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain...

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Doug Horton: Growing old is...

Doug Horton: Growing old is...

Growing old is not growing up.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Doug Horton: When all is...

Doug Horton: When all is...

When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. -- they'll find something.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Thomas Merton: The logic of...

Thomas Merton: The logic of...

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and...

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Thomas Carlyle: Everywhere in life...

Thomas Carlyle: Everywhere in life...

Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we do.

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Thomas Carlyle: For suffering and...

Thomas Carlyle: For suffering and...

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

Source: In...

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Thomas Carlyle: If you do...

Thomas Carlyle: If you do...

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more...

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Thomas Carlyle: If a book...

Thomas Carlyle: If a book...

If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account...

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Thomas Carlyle: It is not...

Thomas Carlyle: It is not...

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their...

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Thomas Carlyle: No violent extreme...

Thomas Carlyle: No violent extreme...

No violent extreme endures.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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