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323 Irish Quotes

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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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Escaping Home Longest Round
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My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

Ambition Full Mouth My Soul
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Am Day Establish Established
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Discovery Mistakes Portals Are
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Discovery Errors Genius His
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Art Cannot Irresponsibility Part
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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Actions Best Men Thoughts
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Age Better Boldly Fade
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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

Forget Heaven Kingdom Like
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

Abhorrent Being Church Heresy
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

America Because Christopher Columbus
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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

Against Always Apparently Artifice
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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

Inclination Ink No Time Pen
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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

Above Artist Behind Beyond
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When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

Die Dublin Heart Will
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A nation is the same people living in the same place.

Living Nation People Place
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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
Curves Emotion Governed Intellect
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My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
Cold Her Mind Polished
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

Balance Ground Happy Hunting
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

Else Love Love Is Mother
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

Demand Devote He His
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I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

Age Allowed Child Coming
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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

Battles Behind Forehead Fought
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The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

Get Men Now Only
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If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

Become European First Ireland
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

Actual Found He His
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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Committed English Ever Explains
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Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
Eats Her Ireland Old
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Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

Ego Individuals Just Like
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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

Arguing Busy Centuries Immortality
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I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
Big Fear Make Those
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It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

Art Cracked Irish Servant
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God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.

God Hear Many Spoke
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If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.

Read Something Connect Want
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I really look forward to that insane hour that we spend together. I really do.

Look foward Insane Hour Spend together
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But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

Dare.Think Future Miss Present
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Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.

Rips Poor World Hunger
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Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival,

Despiration Allow Incredible things Survival
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There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

An addiction To money I have
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The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

Mixed Martial arts Life You focus
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I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them.

Get somewhere I'm done Success Never final
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