Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Reputation is commonly measured by the acre.
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Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
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When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.
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If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.
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A man’s real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
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Shall I be remembered after death? I sometimes think and hope so. But I trust 1 may not be found out before my death.
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Be thou, in rebuking evil, / Conscious of thine own.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing and avoids your eye.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; / Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.
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I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
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The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.
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There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness.
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The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.
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Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.
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Renunciation—is a piercing Virtue—/The letting go / A Presence—for an Expectation—.
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Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.
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Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.
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No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
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The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
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Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.
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The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.
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Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.
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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know.don’t mean I ain't got religion.
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Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.
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Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.
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Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
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Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.
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Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.
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Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one’s fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.
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Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
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Religions which have any very strong hold over men’s actions have generally some instinctive basis.
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Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling,... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart.
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, / And unawares Morality expires.
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You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.
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That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
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Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it, if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.
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In the' long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious^wars.
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Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.
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True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.
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Religion has the same relation to man’s heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other are merely the rules of the game. Belief in God and belief in numbers: local truth and truth of location.
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Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.
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Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
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