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Things Quotes by E. M. Forster
- Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
- Money pads the edges of things.
- One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
- Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting…
- Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the…
- Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
- She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position;…
- One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'-…
- Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead,…
- We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle