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Phyllis Bottome Inspirational Quotes (54)

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The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.
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When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.
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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.
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... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.
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All persecution is a sign of fear for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.
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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
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Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.
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If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.
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A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.
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it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.
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That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.
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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
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death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.
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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.
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Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.
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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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