“Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.”
Quotes to Stay Determined · Page 160
Fierce words to fuel your drive and remind you nothing can stop you.
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“There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.”
“Next to a sum of money down, a grievance is the best thing you can have.”
“Velvet and gilding do not make a throne, nor gold and jewels a sceptre.”
“Courtesy should have kept him silent, even if neither charity nor modesty could do so.”
“There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.”
“It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.”
“One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things.”
“Alas, regardless of their doom, / The little victims play!”
“No more; where ignorance is bliss, / 'Tis folly to be wise.”
“Each in his narrow cell forever laid, / The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.”
“Can storied urn, or animated bust / Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?”
“Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, / And froze the genial current of the soul.”
“E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, / E'en in our Ashes live their wonted Fires.”
“Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth / A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown.”
“Far from the sun and summer-gale, / In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid.”
“He saw; but blasted with excess of light, / Closed his eyes in endless night.”