Great Famous Quotations

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Evelyn Underhill


Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Herman Melville


We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Euripides


What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac


In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

Leo Rosten


I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe

Erich Segal


True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

John Owen


We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations � Book Three


One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2


The rest is silence.

Author Unknown


Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted

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