Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? "

Related Quotes:

" Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. "

" Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. "

" What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? "

" Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. "

" You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl. "

" There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury. "

" The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. "

" Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. "

" Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course. "

" The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. "

" Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. "

" But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. "

" It is never too late to be what you might have been. "

" To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion. "

" Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. "

" Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. "

" The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. "

" I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. "

" Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. "

" When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. "

" I desire no future that will break the ties with the past. "

" In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. "

" I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. "

" Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. "

" Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. "

" Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. "

" Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. "

" There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life. "

" When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. "

" Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. "