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Aphorist Inspirational Quotes (5897)

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It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.
Mark Twain
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Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do - and didn't save many, anyway. But if he had been damned for the race, that would have been act of a size proper to a god, and would have saved the whole race.
Mark Twain
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The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.
Jean de la Bruyere
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What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
Seneca the Younger
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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The children of childish parents age quickly.
Mason Cooley
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Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.
Mark Twain
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There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.
Mark Twain
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Italy is the home of art and swindling home of religion and moral rottenness
Mark Twain
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One eventually has enough even of oneself.
Mason Cooley
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Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.
Mark Twain
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In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen.
Mason Cooley
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Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
Mark Twain
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.
Ambrose Bierce
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The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.
Mark Twain
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The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.
Mark Twain
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If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.
Mark Twain
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You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.
Mark Twain
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Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.
Mason Cooley
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Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.
Ambrose Bierce
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