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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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In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with…
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Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly…
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Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared…
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Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.
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We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it…
— Blaise Pascal
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Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I — I mean," Kate stumbled on, "that with us there is a time past and time present, and time future, and…
— Elizabeth Marie Pope
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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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