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Aphorist Inspirational Quotes (5897)

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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.
Mark Twain
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
Seneca the Younger
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot that it is securely founded that it be successfully executed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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FORCE, n. Force is but might, the teacher said p/ That definition's just./ The boy said naught but throught instead,/ Remembering his pounded head:/ Force is not might but must!
Ambrose Bierce
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A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
Seneca the Younger
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There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Talent without work is useless, thank God
Mark Twain
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The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.
Mark Twain
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The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.
Seneca the Younger
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Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Music is a good thing and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.
Mark Twain
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In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
Mark Twain
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One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.
Seneca the Younger
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
Seneca the Younger
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The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.
Seneca the Younger
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Homely truth is unpalatable.
Mark Twain
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Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
Franz Kafka
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Snow pursued by the wind is not wholly unlike a retreating army. In the open field it ranges itself in ranks and battalions where it can get a foothold it makes a stand where it can take cover it does so. You may see whole platoons of snow cowering behind a bit of broken wall.
Ambrose Bierce
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It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.
Seneca the Younger
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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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