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Literary Historian Inspirational Quotes (5895)

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In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.
Thomas Carlyle
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All envy is proportionate to desire we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.
Samuel Johnson
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Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.
Thomas Carlyle
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
Samuel Johnson
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I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.
Samuel Johnson
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of the people who actually met Him. He produced mainly three effects - Hatred - Terror - Adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild admiration.
C. S. Lewis
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It is better to forget about yourself altogether.
C. S. Lewis
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Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
Samuel Johnson
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
Alexander Pope
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
Alexander Pope
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
Alexander Pope
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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
Alexander Pope
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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
Alexander Pope
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
Alexander Pope
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
Alexander Pope
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
Alexander Pope
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
Alexander Pope
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
Alexander Pope
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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
Alexander Pope
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
Alexander Pope
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
Alexander Pope
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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
Alexander Pope
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
Alexander Pope
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