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Linguist Inspirational Quotes (10872)

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The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.
Amos Oz
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A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
Samuel Johnson
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How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.
Thomas Carlyle
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Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.
Samuel Beckett
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Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
C. S. Lewis
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Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
John Florio
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Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Fools! said the man, stamping his foot with rage. That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been drowned or never born. Do you hear what I say? This is where dreams — dreams, do you understand — come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.
C. S. Lewis
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Others go to bed with their mistresses I with my ideas.
Jose Marti
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You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.
C. S. Lewis
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Dear to me is my bonnie white steed Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.
Walter Scott
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Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.
Walter Scott
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
Walter Scott
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
Walter Scott
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Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.
Walter Scott
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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
Walter Scott
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Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!
Walter Scott
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Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.
Walter Scott
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Art thou a friend to Roderick?
Walter Scott
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It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives.
Walter Scott
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'Tis an old tale, and often told But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!
Walter Scott
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But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?
Walter Scott
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
Walter Scott
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Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.
Walter Scott
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