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Inspirational Quotations #537

July 20, 2014 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (German Scientist)

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson (British Poet)

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson (British Poet)

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can’t.
—Clarence Darrow (American Lawyer)

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
—Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish Novelist)

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
—Franz Kafka (Austrian Novelist)

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
—P. T. Barnum (American Businessperson)

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
—Sandra Day O’Connor

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
—Pearl S. Buck (American Novelist)

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
—Philibert Joseph Roux (French Surgeon)

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
—Gloria Steinem (American Feminist)

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