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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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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
— Erma Bombeck
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.
— Allan H. Meltzer
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I think that there are many different ways of getting and staying sober. Like religion, I just don't think that one way…
— Kristen Johnston
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The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control…
— Irvine Welsh
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There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.
— Hal Abelson
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In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it…
— Unknown Author
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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is…
— Unknown Author
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Basketball is like Religion. Many attend but few understand.
— Scott Skiles
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The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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