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Ambrose Inspirational Quotes (1077)

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OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.
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Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that expands in my being is more than I ever thought possible.
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The wife, or bitter half.
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When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.
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ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
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critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
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Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
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Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion in Constantinople, one who does.
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Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.
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Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.
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me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.
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War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
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PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.
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PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence an attribute of the critic.
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A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.
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RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.
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Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.
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Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.
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PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar itching palm (Palma hominis) is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.
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HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.
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DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.
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POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.
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I was born to poor because of honest parents.
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