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Aphorist Inspirational Quotes (5904)

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Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.
Mason Cooley
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No one can have all he desires.
Seneca the Younger
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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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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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Small successes are still successes great failures are still failures.
Mason Cooley
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A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Politicians love change, but of details only.
Mason Cooley
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It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.
Mark Twain
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The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.
Jean de la Bruyere
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If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.
Seneca the Younger
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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
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The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.
Mason Cooley
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To have more, you must first be more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.
Mark Twain
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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
Seneca the Younger
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If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John Heywood
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Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.
Jules Renard
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A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
Mason Cooley
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Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Precepts are like seeds they are little things which do much good if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.
Seneca the Younger
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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
Antoine Rivarol
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There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
Elias Canetti
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