If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
E. M. FORSTERLife is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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