"Failure or success seems to have been allotted……" — E. M. Forster
"Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle."
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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the…
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Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go…
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Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In…
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You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
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His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects…
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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth,…
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[M]y fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and…
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It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to…
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I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious…
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