"Let the past be content with itself, for……" — James Stephens
"Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory"
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38 Quotes by James Stephens
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Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think…
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What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.
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It is by love alone that we understand anything
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Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.
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A secret is a weapon and a friend.
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By having much, you are fitted to have more.
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To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.
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Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.
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Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom.
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We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure…
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Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly…
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A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought…
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A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they…
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
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Be content to seem what you really are.
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
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There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being…
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
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Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great…
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