Gilbert Parker Quotes
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Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
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When a child is born the mother also is born again.
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The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
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Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars, its feet for the swords; it continueth, though an army lay…
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That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end.
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Tomorrow is no man's gift.
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War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.
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The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the…
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Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
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There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
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In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set…
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It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
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Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for…
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Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
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There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.
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It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
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But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.
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Every shot that kills ricochets.
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Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.
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Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein…
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