“ An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single. ”
- Charlotte Bingham- Copy
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“ Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward. ”
- Igor Sikorsky- Copy
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“ You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press. ”
- Lord Buckley- Copy
- 603
“ But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame. ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
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“ We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes. ”
- Octave Mirbeau- Copy
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“ It is not actual suffering but a taste of better things which excites people to revolt. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ He must be a dull Fellow indeed, whom neither Love, Malice, nor Necessity, can inspire with Wit. ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- Copy
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“ Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. ”
- Margaret Fairless Barber- Copy
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“ Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb: Don't look back, you can never look back. ”
- Don Henley- Copy
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“ It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure. ”
- Grenville Kleiser- Copy
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“ A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. ”
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry- Copy
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“ Two things inspire me to awe — the starry heavens above and the moral universe within. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ When I approach a child He inspires in me two sentiments: Tenderness for what he is, And respect for what he may become. ”
- Louis Pasteur- Copy
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“ The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others. ”
- Adolf Hitler- Copy
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“ Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight. ”
- Geoffrey Chaucer- Copy
- 3.5K
“ While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 141
“ The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
- 701
“ A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. ”
- Mary Kay Ash- Copy
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