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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
— James A. Baldwin
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A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and…
— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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Anybody can do anything that he imagines.
— Henry Ford
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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With…
— Abraham Lincoln
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When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.
— Theodore Martin
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Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the…
— Ernest Hello
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In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie…
— John Green
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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
— Paracelsus
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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which…
— Louis Aragon
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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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