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Dramatist Inspirational Quotes (1690)

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A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.
Alfred de Musset
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What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone we can no longer control it.
Alfred de Musset
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Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?
Alfred de Musset
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There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings
Alfred de Musset
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Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
Alfred de Musset
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Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
Alfred de Musset
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If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart
Alfred de Musset
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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
Alfred de Musset
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Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not To wound the fame of princes, if it find But any blemish in their lives to work on.
Philip Massinger
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Fancy can save or kill it hath clos'd up Wounds when the balsam could not, and without The aid of salves:--to think hath been a cure. For witchcraft then, that's all done by the force Of mere imagination.
William Cartwright
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The fool inherits, but the wise must get.
William Cartwright
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Those who are the hardest for me to love are probably those who need my love the most.
William Cartwright
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Love makes those young whom age doth chill, And whom he finds young, keeps still.
William Cartwright
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Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.
Thomas Otway
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A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
Jean Racine
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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Clare Boothe Luce
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Roll on, thou ball, roll on! Through pathless realms of Space, Roll on!
W. S. Gilbert
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Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
Francis Beaumont
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I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
W. S. Gilbert
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We must not be content to be cleansed from sin we must be filled with the Spirit.
John Fletcher
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We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
William Saroyan
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Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.
William Saroyan
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I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.
William Saroyan
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My work has always been the product of my time.
William Saroyan
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