One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
E. M. FORSTERShe had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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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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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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