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Aphorist Inspirational Quotes (5897)

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We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain
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The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead
Jules Renard
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.
Ambrose Bierce
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SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.
Ambrose Bierce
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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
Seneca the Younger
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The finished man, you know, is difficult to please a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.
Mark Twain
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Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
Mason Cooley
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My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.
Mason Cooley
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I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.
Seneca the Younger
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When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.
Mason Cooley
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Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.
Mason Cooley
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Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.
Ambrose Bierce
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The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.
Ambrose Bierce
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Rule of science: only exclude purpose, and Nature will reveal her causes.
Mason Cooley
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If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
Seneca the Younger
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RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.
Ambrose Bierce
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The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.
Mason Cooley
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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.
Mark Twain
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