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Edwin Percy Whipple has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their…
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In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own…
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Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by…
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The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
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Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
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Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of…
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Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure,…
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Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but…
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Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.
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Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents…
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Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their…
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A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.
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We are not cistern made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.
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I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as…
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If Christ were only a cistern we might soon exhaust his fullness but who can drain a fountain?
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The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.
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I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of…
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Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
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Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.
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Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out…
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Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
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Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out…
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