To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Submitted by thestephb over 2 years ago
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Submitted by thestephb over 2 years ago
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What dullness there is in our life arises mostly from its rapidity: people pass us too quickly to show us their interesting side. By the end of the week we have talked to a hundred bores; whereas, if we had stuck to one of them, we might have found ourselves talking to a new friend, or a humourist, or a murderer, or a man who had seen a ghost.
Submitted by thestephb about 1 year ago
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There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Submitted by thestephb over 2 years ago
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
Submitted by thestephb over 2 years ago
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Submitted by allie16e over 2 years ago
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Fairy tales are more than true — not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.
Submitted by thestephb over 2 years ago
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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
Submitted by thestephb over 2 years ago
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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
Submitted by queenosheba almost 2 years ago
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Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.
Submitted by thestephb over 2 years ago
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
Submitted by thestephb over 2 years ago
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
Submitted by billbatterman over 1 year ago
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Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized.
Submitted by thestephb over 2 years ago
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
Submitted by thestephb over 2 years ago
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
Submitted by sanrio007 about 2 years ago
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When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other thing there is) has these vices much more. The Church has been cruel; but the world has been much more cruel. The Church has plotted; but the world has plotted much more. The Church has been superstitious; but it has never been so superstitious as the world is when left to itself.
Submitted by thestephb over 2 years ago
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The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
Submitted by edollmeyer over 1 year ago
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