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G K Chesterton: The mind that...

G K Chesterton: The mind that...

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's, but the mind that never finds its way back is the...

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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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G K Chesterton: A puritan is...

G K Chesterton: A puritan is...

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

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G K Chesterton: All conservatism is...

G K Chesterton: All conservatism is...

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If...

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Anatole France: The average man...

Anatole France: The average man...

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last...

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Elias Canetti: Every decision is...

Elias Canetti: Every decision is...

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with...

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Aesop: Beware that you...

Aesop: Beware that you...

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

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Robertson Davies: Whether you are...

Robertson Davies: Whether you are...

Whether you are really right or wrong doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

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Robertson Davies: Comparatively few people...

Robertson Davies: Comparatively few people...

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or...

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Pearl Buck: I don't wait...

Pearl Buck: I don't wait...

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to...

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Pearl Buck: Ah well, perhaps...

Pearl Buck: Ah well, perhaps...

Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than...

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Elizabeth Bowen: All your youth...

Elizabeth Bowen: All your youth...

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are...

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Annie Dillard: We wake, if...

Annie Dillard: We wake, if...

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: One would like...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: One would like...

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very...

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Jessamyn West: If I were...

Jessamyn West: If I were...

If I were to join a circle of any kind, it would be one that required its members to try something new at least once a...

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Jerome K Jerome: Among all nations...

Jerome K Jerome: Among all nations...

Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in Silence and listen to it, for it...

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Alvin Toffler: You simply *must*...

Alvin Toffler: You simply *must*...

You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.

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Honore de Balzac: Journalism is a...

Honore de Balzac: Journalism is a...

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

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Honore de Balzac: Hope is a...

Honore de Balzac: Hope is a...

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

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Honore de Balzac: If we could...

Honore de Balzac: If we could...

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Source: In The...

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