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Inspirational Quotations #591

August 2, 2015 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
—Richard Bach (American Novelist)

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
—Norman Cousins (American Journalist)

We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
—John Locke (English Philosopher)

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It wasn’t reasoned into him, and it cannot be reasoned out.
—Sydney Smith (English Anglican Writer)

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
—Jean Paul (German Novelist)

The love of gain never made a painter, but it has marred many.
—Washington Allston (American Poet)

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
—Josiah Gilbert Holland (American Novelist)

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
—Friedrich Schiller (German Poet)

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place
—H. L. Mencken (American Journalist)

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.
—James Cash Penney (American Entrepreneur)

There is a great difference between him who is ashamed before his own self and him who is only ashamed before others.
—The Talmud (Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith)

All mankind are happier for having been happy, so that if you make them happy new, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.
—Sydney Smith (English Anglican Writer)

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
—Cosimo de’ Medici

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