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E. M. Forster has 346 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it…
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
— Thomas Carlyle
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If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.
— Wilfred Owen
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A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
— Aeschylus
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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
— Alfred de Vigny
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No matter how difficult the trial... we can take comfort in knowing that others before us have borne life's most grievous trials…
— M. Russell Ballard
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Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.
— Tom DeMarco
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People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of…
— Shelby Foote
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Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a…
— John F. Kerry
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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on…
— John Tillotson
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There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common…
— Hippocrates
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