Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Some folk want their luck buttered.
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When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
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The man who glories in his luck / May be overthrown by destiny.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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None can hold fortune still and make it last.
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Fortune always will confer an aura / Of worth, unworthily; and in this world / The lucky person passes for a genius.
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To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.
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Don’t envy men / Because they seem to have a run of luck, / Since luck’s a nine day’s wonder. Wait their end.
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Who has good luck is good, / Who has bad luck is bad.
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Heaven’s help is better-than early rising.
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Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
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Did man e’er live / Saw priest or woman yet forgive?
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Forgotten is forgiven.
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Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean.
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Reason to rule but mercy to forgive: / The first is law, the last prerogative.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; / For they ne’er pardon who have done the wrong.
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Ants and savages put strangers to death.
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Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect. '
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Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.
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At twelve noon/The natives swoon/ And no further work is done/ But mad dogs and Englishmen/Go out in the midday sun.
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Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.
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Do not expect justice where might is right.
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When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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Justice without force is impotent, force without justice is tyranny.... Not being able to make what is just strong, we make what was strong just.
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The use of force alone is temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!
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Always the dulness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
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The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
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To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
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Every man hath a fool in his sleeve.
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Tis wisdom sometimes to seem a fool.
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The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.
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Wise men ... learn by others’ harms, fools scarcely by their own.
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Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
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It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork and beans, of whole meals in cans, and of everything else ready made.
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If you think my acts are foolishness / the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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What is life but a'series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.
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Tell him to be a fool every so often / and to have no shame over having been a fool / yet learning something over every folly.
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A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
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Wisdom at times is found in folly.
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Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.
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Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.
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If others had not been foolish, we should be so.
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The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.
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The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
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One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.
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Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for mastership.
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