"Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments,……" — Joseph Conrad
"Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin."
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Joseph Conrad
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235 Quotes by Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad has 235 quotes on this site.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which…
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
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The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.
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Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
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The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends,…
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human,…
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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a…
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Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if…
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A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.
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We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to…
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want…
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism…
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I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I…
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Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Advice, the smallest current coin.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.
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'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'
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Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
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Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.
— Carl Sandburg
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Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.
— Alfie Kohn
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