War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a […]
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a […]
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We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because […]
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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson , US essayist & poet (1803 […]
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We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson , US essayist & poet […]
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Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey - Preface
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. Great short quote and quotation by: Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey – Preface , Irish dramatist, […]
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. Great short quote and quotation by: Oscar Wilde , Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
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We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. Great short quote and quotation by: Frank Tibolt ,
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Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you . The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out. Great short quote and quotation by: Grace Speare ,
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! Great short quote and quotation by: Victor Hugo , French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. Great short quote and quotation by: Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935) , US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities. Great short quote and quotation by: Joseph Addison , English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 – 1719)