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8984 quotesThe honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
Poverty and The Poor
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Books - Reading
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
Trains
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
Vulgarity
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.
Wonder
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
Retirement
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.
Neighbors
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
Convalescence
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
Fights and Fighting
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
Reform
Lydia M. Child
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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
Judgment and Judges
Lydia M. Child
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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
Age and Aging
Lydia M. Child
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Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Friends and Friendship
Chilo
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Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
Honesty
Chilo
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Adversity
Chinese Proverb
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A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
Fortune
Chinese Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
Wisdom
Chinese Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Decisions
Chinese Proverb
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All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.
Family
Chinese Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Children
Chinese Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Critics and Criticism
Chinese Proverb
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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Fools and Foolishness
Chinese Proverb
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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Action
Chinese Proverb
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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Anger
Chinese Proverb
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Words
Chinese Proverb
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun