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The weather-cock on the church spir…

25 Jan , 2017  

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it… did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. Great short quote and quotation by: Heinrich Heine , German critic & poet (1797 – 1856)

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John Macy

The wisest keeps something of the v…

25 Jan , 2017  

The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life. Great short quote and quotation by: John Macy ,

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J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

The world is indeed full of peril, …

25 Jan , 2017  

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. Great short quote and quotation by: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring ,

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Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

The world is so empty if one thinks…

25 Jan , 2017  

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us — this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. Great short quote and quotation by: Johan Wolfgang von Goethe ,

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There are many shining qualities on…

3 May , 2016  

There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks […]

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There are only two ways to live you…

3 May , 2016  

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is. Great short quote and quotation by: Albert Einstein , US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

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Samuel Johnson, Rambler #18

There is no observation more freque…

3 Jul , 2015  

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and […]

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There is no such thing as a worthle…

3 Jul , 2015  

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve. Great short quote and quotation […]

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George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)

There is only one religion, though …

26 Dec , 2014  

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. Great short quote and quotation by: George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898) , Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

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W. M. L. Jay

Though a good motive cannot sanctio…

24 May , 2012  

Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom. Great short quote and quotation by: W. M. L. Jay ,

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Bion

Though boys throw stones at frogs i…

24 May , 2012  

Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. Great short quote and quotation by: Bion , Greek bucolic poet (~100 BC)

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Though ambition itself be a vice, y…

24 May , 2012  

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. Great short quote and quotation by: Quintilian , Roman rhetorician

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