Random Quotes
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We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.Marcel Proust
Biography lends to death a new terror.Oscar Wilde
A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.Author Unknown
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.Sydney Smith
Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.William Cowper
As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with are the greatest babblers.Plato
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.Francis Quarles
I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.Joseph Addison