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Aphorist Inspirational Quotes (5897)

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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
Seneca the Younger
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Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.
Mark Twain
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There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?
Mark Twain
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Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
Mason Cooley
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There are no friends only moments of friendship.
Jules Renard
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Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.
Mason Cooley
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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
Seneca the Younger
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Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
Mason Cooley
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Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain
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I gulp down my pleasures, chew over my miseries.
Mason Cooley
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Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.
Mark Twain
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It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Mark Twain
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Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
Mason Cooley
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Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.
Mark Twain
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A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
Mark Twain
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Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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The court is like a palace built of marble I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]
Jean de la Bruyere
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Sexual attraction makes the strangest bedfellows of all.
Mason Cooley
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Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Mark Twain
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.
Jean de la Bruyere
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