"Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present."

Connolly, Cyril on idleness   

"There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God."

Connolly, Cyril on god
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"There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts."

Roux, Joseph on cries and crying
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"Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word."

Roux, Joseph on conversation
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"Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know."

Roux, Joseph on science
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"A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool."

Roux, Joseph on quotations
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"Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions."

Roux, Joseph on poetry and poets   

"Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained."

Roux, Joseph on experience
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"Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union."

Connolly, Cyril on marriage   

"The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."

Connolly, Cyril on marriage
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"Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium."

Connolly, Cyril on crime and criminals
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"Youth is a period of missed opportunities."

Connolly, Cyril on youth
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"No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book."

Connolly, Cyril on wisdom   

"Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising."

Connolly, Cyril on talent   

"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."

Connolly, Cyril on charm   

"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say."

Connolly, Cyril on suicide
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"Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action."

Connolly, Cyril on sin   

"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."

Connolly, Cyril on science   

"The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave."

Connolly, Cyril on reason   

"In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female."

Connolly, Cyril on women
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"Zeal is like fire: it needs both feeding and watching."

Proverb on zeal   

"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light."

Fuller, Thomas on zeal
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"Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly."

Davies, Sir John on zeal
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"Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost."

Buddha on zeal
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"Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine."

Ballou, Hosea on zeal
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"Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it."

Shenstone, William on zeal   

"Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools."

Tillotson, John on zeal   

"In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us. A man who has not learned to say, No --who is not resolved that he will take God's way, in spite of every dog that can bay or bark at him, in spite of every silvery choice that woos him aside--will be a weak and a wretched man till he dies."

Maclaren, Alexander on decisions
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"In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, It doth not yet appear what we shall be."

Maclaren, Alexander on heaven   

"Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city."

Maclaren, Alexander on life   

"Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side."

Maclaren, Alexander on death
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"The simple lack of her is more to me than others presence."

Thomas, Edward on importance
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"The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet."

Thomas, Edward on past
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"There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated."

Pilgrim, Peace on hatred
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"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted."

Keillor, Garrison on children   

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose."

Keillor, Garrison on nature   

"The funniest line in English is Get it? When you say that, everyone chortles."

Keillor, Garrison on jokes and jokers
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"One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit."

Keillor, Garrison on debt   

"A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together."

Keillor, Garrison on christmas
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"To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace."

Pilgrim, Peace on life