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General
Thoughtful Quotes - 1
Small worries are worst when we
are idle and are often dispersed by motion like a flock of gnats.
--Charles Horton Cooley
When the heart dares to speak it
needs no preparations.
--Lessing
Its no use complaining of boredom
when you don't do anything about it.
--Godfrey Winn
Win as if you were used to
it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
--Erick Golnik
Silent gratitude isn't much
good to anyone.
--Gladys Browyn Stern
Every exit is an entry somewhere.
--Tom Stoppard
A similar expression in India is "When God closes all doors, He opens
a window". Means There is always a way to come out of the troubles;
or all roads are never closed.
Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so
we could hear twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus, Philosopher
Better to write of laughter than
of tears. Because to laugh is proper to the man.
--Rebelais
With women, the heart argues not
the mind.
--Matthew Arnold
Some people fall for everything
and stand for nothing.
--Anon
A life of pleasure is the most unpleasing life in the world.
--Oliver Goldsmith
Life is a watch or a vision,
Between a sleep and a sleep.
--A.C. Swineburne
Tact is the saving virtue without
which no woman can be a success.
--Sir William Osler
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks, learns quite as much from his failures
as from his successes.
--John Dewey
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits;
habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."
-Tyron Edwards
Humblest we must be, if to heaven we go,
High is the roof there, but the gate is low;
Whenever thou speak'st, look with a lowly eye
Grace is increased by humility.
--Robert Herric
Where the mind is without fear and
the head is held high,
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary
sound of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and
action--
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
--Rabindra Nath Tagore,
"Suffering and Hope"
England has two books, the Bible and the Shakespeare. England made
Shakespeare, but the Bible made England.
--Victor Hugo
You have to discuss it with somebody or read yourself because it relates to England's
history and the explanation is long.
The Cross is "I" crossed out.
--Anon
Character is like a tree and reputation like its
shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
--Abraham Lincoln
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