To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe chase dreams and embrace shadows.
More Anatole France Quotes
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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