If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. FORSTERDon’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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I 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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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