Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.
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The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.
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It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.
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The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
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Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.
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At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.
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All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.
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A man’s house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery.
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Welcome is the best cheer.
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Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.
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When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.
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The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
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What is there / more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.
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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.
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Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.
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the only way boss / to keep hope in the world / is to keep changing its / population frequently.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its master's indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
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Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.
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The short span of life forbids us to take on far- reaching hopes.
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Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
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In the time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.
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Hope is a great falsifier of truth.
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The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
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Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. / —A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry.
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Hope is a strange invention— / A Patent of the Heart— / In unremitting action / Yet never wearing out—.
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Hope is a risk that must be run.
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Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.
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It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
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Great power, which incites / Great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned / In a long, splendid stream of honors.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom / They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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[D]on’t come giving me, who’s old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big banquet that you eat up in honor of your own stomachs as much as in honor of me— who's toothless and can’t eat.
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High honors are sweet / To a man’s heart, but ever / They stand close to the brink of grief.
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A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.
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A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.
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Fie that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing.
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Honesty’s praised, then left to freeze.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest—that would he like a blind man willing to see.
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Who cannot open an honest mind / No friend will he be of mine.
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Actually there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. Those sexual acts are entirely natural; if they were not, no one would perform them.
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Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don’t; many respond to both.
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Charlie had that defensive contempt for homosexuals which people often have when their own sexuality is an embarrassment to them.
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Fairies: Nature’s attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.
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It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
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Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, / Who never to himself hath said, / This is my own, my native land! *
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