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4391 Novelist Quotes

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Gains Itself Lean Learns
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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Capture Groundwork Heart Lessons
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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Darkness Each Light Like
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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Guides Manners Morals Others
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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
Acquire Enemies Every Hundred
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God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
God Tempers Lamb Wind
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An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

Able Actor Create Hand
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I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Eyes Get Keep Life
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People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

Care Enjoy Health Hoard
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Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Conversation Different I Think May
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Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

Add Brass Current Gold
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I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

Adds Am Every Every Time
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The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

Accomplished Acquaintance Books Brag
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People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

Always Care Enjoy Enough
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When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

Advantage Bargain Discontented Excellent
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A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

Along Articles Brings Dwarf
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When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

Before Flies Heart Judgment
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But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

Ask Govern Governs Here
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Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
Learned May Rote Sciences
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Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Holes More Occasions Other
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There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

Absurd Argument Been Christian
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Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Certainly Duties Easy Most
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An English man does not travel to see English men.
Does English Man Men
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So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Death Devil Get Joy
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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Add Alas Contentment Grandeur
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Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Companion Lay Lays Many
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It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

Candle Certain Day Either
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I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

Alone Any Asked Cottage
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In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

Actions Appearance Case Compliment
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What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

Another Button Cause Life
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Burning Evidence Just Life
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Absence Caress Done Dreams
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There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Crack Everything Gets How
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When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

About Certain Repose Sense
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When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.

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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Consider Feel I Feel I Think
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

Ally Battle Body Her
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

Acute Be True Compassion Despair
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

Catastrophe Clinical Conversations Days
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To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

Beyond Condition Constitution Covenant
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
Act Like Soon Way
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Last Refuge Sense Sleeping
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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Am Does Face I Am
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Asking Barely Child He
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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

Activity Any Delicious Disagreeable
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I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
I Write Paid Pay Want
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

Always Considered Explore Minor
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We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

Fun Guitar More Much
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I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Group Jazz Liked Lyrics
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