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Herbert Inspirational Quotes (1631)

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The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
Frank Herbert
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Heresie is the school of pride.
George Herbert
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Fine words dresse ill deedes.
George Herbert
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Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.
Frank Herbert
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The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.
George Herbert
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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!
A. P. Herbert
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Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining.
George Herbert
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It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.
George Herbert
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There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with equal strength, in favour of cannibalism.
Herbert M. Shelton
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The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provided they have been successful, to emphasise certain principles of progress in the past and to produce a story which is the ratification if not the glorification of the present.
Herbert Butterfield
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George Herbert
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Death keeps no calendar.
George Herbert
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Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain, unless one can. do big things.
Herbert Butterfield
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Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.
George Herbert
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Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.
Frank Herbert
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He that lends, gives.
George Herbert
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When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them
Frank Herbert
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This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.
Herbert Marcuse
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Poverty is no sinne. [Poverty is no sin.]
George Herbert
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Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.
Herbert Spencer
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I worry about the many things that could happen to the people I love.
James Herbert
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Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he or she is in. That person must reflect what is projected upon him or her.
Frank Herbert
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How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up, they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills, with unshakable confidence.
Herbert Lockyer
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They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen.
George Herbert
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