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All Quotes Collection
"Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price."
64
"All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room."
51
"Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."
15
"Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?"
22
"Your action expresses your priorities."
19
"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."
33
"Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it."
49
"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer."
67
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
34
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."
39
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
17
"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."
65
"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."
12
"The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job."
49
"The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government."
44
"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."
16
"Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts."
12
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
98
"Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form."
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"Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep."
17
"If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please."
76
"There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change."
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