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Ambrose Inspirational Quotes (1077)

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It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.
Stephen Ambrose
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I never thought I was a bad person. I just thought I was the one good person living in a world of bad people.
Dean Ambrose
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IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.
Ambrose Bierce
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An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.
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resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.
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God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
Ambrose
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Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.
Ambrose Bierce
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.
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MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher . .
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Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him.
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.
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Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
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This is an issue that women are not interested in debating.
Rona Ambrose
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Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.
Ambrose Bierce
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The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
Stephen Ambrose
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PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.
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plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
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EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.
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Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.
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EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.
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When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
Ambrose
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