Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
ANATOLE FRANCETo accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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