Great Quotes

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Otavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)


Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Gay Talese


The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

Charles Caleb Colton


Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller


There is no such thing as chance and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Herman Melville


Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Sophocles


Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Thomas Fuller


Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Publilius Syrus


An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2


He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.

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