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64 quotes (Page 2 of 3 pages)If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
Pride
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
Wealth
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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
Emotions
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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
Problems
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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
Love
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Marriage
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My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.
Patriotism
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New roads; new ruts.
Progress
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No man knows he is young while he is young.
Youth
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One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Knowledge
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One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
Hatred
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Adversity
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Argument
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Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
Analysis
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Silence is the unbearable repartee.
Silence
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Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
Status
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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
Cosmos
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
Gold
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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
Innocence
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
Poverty and The Poor
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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
Terrorism
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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Books - Reading
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The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
Trains
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
Fame
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.
Travel and Tourism
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun