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323 Irish Quotes

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed
Soul
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We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

Like Need
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It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.

Creativity Darkness Depths
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to the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with mindfulness and art, have an effect far beyond their apparent insignificance.

Art Soul
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When soul is neglected, it doesn't just go away; it appears symptomatically in obsessions, addictions, violence, and loss of meaning.

Soul
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Maybe one function of love is to cure us of an anemic imagination, a life emptied of romantic attachment and abandoned to reason.

Life Love
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Few men think; yet all have opinions.

Few men Think Opinions
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If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Tress falls Forest Hear Sound
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

Choir Heaven Furniture Word
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Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

Truth Cry Game
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That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

Thing Hell Punishment Absurd
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It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public

Impossible Man Friends
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The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

The world Board Square
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...we ought to think with the learned, and speak with the vulgar.

We ought Learned Vulgar
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A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.
Ray Imagination Wisdom
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God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

God Transcendent Unlimited perfections
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If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.

Admit Extraordinary Creation World
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Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

People Educated Piloting
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So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

So long Thoughts Divested Words
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From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

Own Dependency Ideas Reason
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Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.

Religion Centre Cement Members
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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

Such thing Honest man
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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Man World Search Needs
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Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

Art must Parochial Cosmopolitan
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The difficulty in life is the choice.

Difficulty In life Choice
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Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

Taking something Man Worse Plagiarism
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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Reality Destroy Dream
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The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
Wrong way Seems Reasonable
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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

Everybody Sets out Do something Does
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A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.

A man Letters Objects Sharpens
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An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.

An idea Impersonal Today Tomorrow
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To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?

Better purpose Devoted Talents Resuscitation
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Men never get free from morality, only women.
Man never Free Morality
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The right I claim is that of every human being to speak what he believes to be the truth to whomever he may meet on his way.

Right Claim Human being Speak
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An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

Idea Running Books Gain qualities
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Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.

Every race Religion Policemen Priests
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The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods.

The truth Love Beautiful Mountains
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I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail.

Believe Universal religion Language Feeling
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You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about many things interestingly; and I am not an unkindly soul, I believe.

You will Aged man Career Brilliant
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Around Does Fertilizer Good
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Envy Heart Human Passion
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Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

Agreeable Antagonist Courage Everything
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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Benefits Conferred Dies Lived
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Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Conscience More Politics Than
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My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Certainly Feel Going Hands
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You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

Interest Know Pay Principal
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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Determine Fail Succeed Surest
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Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
Abuse Abuse Nature Never
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Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

Best Day Grow Had
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Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

Least Most Sincere Those
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