You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
E. M. FORSTERI cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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