Quotes By The Day

[Snowden]

An open foe may prove a curse,
but a pretended friend is worse.

Very true!

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

This isn't always true, though.

[Woodmonkey]

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save

How true!

[Snowden]

Most of what he said seems true -- and he was a poet. A most observant one, indeed!

[Woodmonkey]

Yes, he was.

[conlor]

George Sand

(7/1/1804-6/8/1876)

French Writer

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
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Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
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No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

[Woodmonkey]

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

That's a good one