"Words, as is well known, are the great…" — Joseph Conrad
"Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality."
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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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Here's the main page of motivational quotes, if you want a different topic. Gossip is what no one claims to…
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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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More Foe Quotes
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
— Aristophanes
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When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.
— Michele Bachmann
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I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe:…
— William Blake
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not…
— Oswald Chambers
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Expose foes wit my hocus pocus flows, they froze now suckas idolize my chosen blows
— Tupac Shakur
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I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity…
— Tallulah Bankhead
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Only those who are spiritual perceive the reality of the spiritual foe and hence engage in battle. Such warfare is…
— Watchman Nee
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A friend to honesty and a foe to crime
— Allan Pinkerton
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When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
— Sun Tzu
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So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak. Water shapes…
— Sun Tzu
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Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a…
— Arnold Haultain
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