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Literary Inspirational Quotes (2629)

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It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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You can't make someone read. Just like you can't make them fall in love, or dream.
Daniel Pennac
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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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Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.
Hermann Hesse
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Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child.
Rumi
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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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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!
Rumi
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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 hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Since I was cut from the reedbed I have made this crying sound. Anyone separated from someone he loves understands what I say. Anyone pulled from a Source longs to go back.
Rumi
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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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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A new moon teaches gradualness and deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly. Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe. What nine months of attention does for an embryo forty early mornings will do for your gradually growing wholeness
Rumi
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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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The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
Theodore Sturgeon
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Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
Hermann Hesse
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Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.
Rumi
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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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