Great Quotations

Quotations:

Nadine Gordimer


Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Marcus Aurelius


Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.

Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell


The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not "to have and to hold" but "to give and serve." There can be no other meaning.

Abraham Lincoln


My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Kim Hubbard


There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it

Henry Van Dyke


Use what talent you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Sir John Lubbock


Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Plato


Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.

Robert Anson Heinlein


A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Alfred Lord Tennyson


There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

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