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8803 Writer Quotes

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Motives Boast Enjoy Book
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Fear Opinion Once Now
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Love Caution True Form
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Cause Modern World Doubt
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.
Fear Dead Life Love
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.

Doubt Vanity Those Existence
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Passion Strong Life Pity
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Report Accurate Understand Hear
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted

Hang Mark Long Affair
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

Prove Exist Ancient Region
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

Great Stupid Clever Democracy
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Symptom Approach Nervous Belief
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It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

Catch Easy Fall Love
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Burn Life Bridge Cross
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My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Obvious Desire Wish Start
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To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

Philosophy Study Age Chief
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Nobly Prevent Free Else
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Intimacy Intense Deep Known
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Knowledge Power Astonishing Little
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When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

Think Teach Children Begin
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You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Love Fall Because Reality
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You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Love Someone Look Clothes
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We loved with a love that was more than love.

Love That With More
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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Love Smoke Make With
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Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

Doubt Thou Stars Fire
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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Love True Destiny Find
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I don't think I've ever had a bad Valentine's Day, I mean... c'mon, y'all know I never get a bad Valentine. Nah. Um, no, I've never really had - I don't have a bad Valentine's Day. I never really think... it doesn't come up to my mind.

Bad Come Day Ever
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I think that Valentine's Day is only as good as you want it to be. You know, I don't think it should be anything fancy, nothing crazy. As long as you're spending time with that person that's special, I think that's a great Valentine's Day.

Anything Crazy Day Fancy
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Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

Today True Truer Alive
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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Read Know Learn Places
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Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Fit Stand Out Born
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From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

Funny Here Everywhere Things
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Everything stinks until it’s finished.

Stinks Finished Everything Until
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We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

Weird Love Life Someone
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Be awesome! Be a book nut!
Book Nut Awesome
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These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume

Violent Kiss Ends Like
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Know We May
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This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Life Virtue Honour Poor
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The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

Wise Fools Pity Speak
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But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Eternal Fade Possession Death
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The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.
Hope Medicine Miserable Only
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And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Life Exempt Good Tongues
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Years Dream Sail Safe
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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Truth Remember Anything Tell
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If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

Frog Best Job Biggest
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Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile.

Forgive Kiss Rules Life
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

Read Man Advantage Over
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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Crowded Claim Accomplish Things
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The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

Cat Lives Difference Lie
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Do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Golden Rule Habit Duty
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