John Sterling Quotes

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• Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
• Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
• Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
• There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no…
• The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
• Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
• The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.
• Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
• Man is a substance clad in shadows.
• Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.
• He stands in history as the completer of the globe.

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