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.
ANATOLE FRANCETo accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
More Anatole France Quotes
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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