Continual Quotes
323 quotes by 253 authors
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Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example.
— John Ruskin
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Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.
— Milan Kundera
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Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think)…
— C.S. Lewis
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God,' she cried, 'what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't…
— Djuna Barnes
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men…
— Thomas Hobbes
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Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their…
— C.S. Lewis
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This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
— Ray Bradbury
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And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer,…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.
— Clarice Lispector
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I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will…
— Albert Einstein
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There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can…
— Brother Lawrence
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Women Are Not Roses Women have no beginning only continual flows. Though rivers flow women are not rivers. Women are not roses they are not…
— Ana Castillo
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Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things…
— Lynne Truss
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No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy,…
— Booth Tarkington
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Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.
— Stephen Dunn
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Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the…
— John Bunyan
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Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and…
— Oswald Chambers
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