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Hilaire Belloc has 84 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When well-divided property has disappeared and Capitalism has taken its place, you cannot reverse the process without acting against natural economic tendencies.
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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the…
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We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the…
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Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
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Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is…
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Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the…
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Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,…
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A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
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Madame V begins the lesson by reading aloud the first stanza of a famous French poem: Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme…
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For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much…
— Hilaire Belloc
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I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
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Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at…
— Sri Yukteswar Giri
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