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Phyllis Bottome Inspirational Quotes (54)

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Truth is its own defense.
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... one pets what one degrades and one has to support what one has enfeebled
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... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!
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A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.
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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.
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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.
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A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.
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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
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Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!
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it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.
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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?
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I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!
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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
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Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.
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Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
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Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
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artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
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