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Diarist Inspirational Quotes (16475)

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I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.
Vaslav Nijinsky
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I am not crying, but have tears in my heart.
Vaslav Nijinsky
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I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.
Vaslav Nijinsky
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Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
Henry David Thoreau
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If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.
Leo Tolstoy
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To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.
Katherine Mansfield
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Lord Byron
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.
Charles Bukowski
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Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn nature's oldest force is as good as new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.
Henry David Thoreau
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I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)
Ronald Reagan
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I am simply a book drunkard.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare.
Charles Bukowski
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I think one must do the thing -- whatever it is (and it changes from time to time) -- that unites you to the flowing stream of the world. At any price, one must do it first. Otherwise one can do nothing, nothing at all. One is out of touch, out of grace.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
Madame de Stael
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But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and educated, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means, by means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule.
Leo Tolstoy
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Very few people love others for what they are rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There are various, nay, incredible faiths why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
Henry David Thoreau
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A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
Henry David Thoreau
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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