Today's Quote

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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

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"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity
would not be so welcome."

--Charlotte Bronte

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"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day,
a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic
waiting somewhere behind the morning."

--J.B. Priestly

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The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore,
they attempt the impossible and achieve it, generation
after generation.

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The test of thankfulness is not what
you have to be thankful for,
but whether anyone else has reason
to be thankful that you are here

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Classic Quotes by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) English novelist

"A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."

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"A man's most open actions have a secret side to them."

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"Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions."

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"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."

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"An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation."

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"Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line."

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"As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook."

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"As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs."

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"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."

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"Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world."

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"Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.

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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)

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"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to
be going down."

--Arnold Glasow