Today Quotes
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Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.Francis Quarles
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.Sterne
Analysis kills spontaneity.Henri-Frederic Amiel
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.Swami Brahnmananda
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.G. K. Chesterton
The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it.Clarence Darrow
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.George Iles
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.Margaret Fuller