Category: Various

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1. "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts."

Mark Twain


2. "Fame is something which must be won; honor is something which must not be lost."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Quotations about: Success and Fame


3. "An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton


4. "If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


5. "I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do."

Helen Keller


6. "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Everlasting Man"

Quotations about: Life and Death


7. "Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country."

Samuel Butler


8. "Space is to place as eternity is to time."

Joseph Joubert

Quotations about: Time and Passing


9. "Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty - it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it."

George Eliot, "Adam Bede"

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

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