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Aphorist Inspirational Quotes (5897)

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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Seneca the Younger
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A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.
Antoine Rivarol
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I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.
Mark Twain
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I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The writer considers sayability before anything else.
Mason Cooley
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness.
Mason Cooley
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I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.
Mark Twain
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
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Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
Seneca the Younger
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It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
Antonio Porchia
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A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are.
Mason Cooley
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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Seneca the Younger
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Elementary propositions consist of names.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.
Mark Twain
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The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
Mark Twain
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.
Seneca the Younger
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The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
Seneca the Younger
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ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.
Ambrose Bierce
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